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[Up the river from Belle Isle Bridge (Parke Davis Excursion), Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Print

[Up the river from Belle Isle Bridge (Parke Davis Excursion), Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Up the river from Belle Isle Bridge (Parke Davis Excursion), Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Up the river from Belle Isle Bridge (Parke Davis Excursion), Detroit, Mich.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Up the river from Belle Isle Bridge (Parke Davis Excursion), Detroit, Mich.]

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The vessel in this view is the *Don Juan de Austria*, a steamer chartered for an outing by Parke, Davis & Company, the Detroit pharmaceutical firm whose employees made excursions like this one. The picture looks upriver from the Belle Isle Bridge, which connected the city to the island park in the Detroit River, so the scene shows the river traffic that workers and families shared with the city's leisure seekers. The glass dry plate was part of the Detroit Publishing Company's large body of views of American cities and waterways, made in the years before 1915. Note how the river and the crowded decks give a sense of an early-twentieth-century company outing.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 5955" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039089. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDon Juan de Austria (Gunboat) Steamboats. Rivers. Gunboats--American.United States--Michigan--Detroit.United States--Michigan--Detroit River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68783

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