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Conservatory on Belle Isle [Park], interior, Detroit, Mich. – Historic Reproduction

Conservatory on Belle Isle [Park], interior, Detroit, Mich., [1905?] — historic photograph
Conservatory on Belle Isle [Park], interior, Detroit, Mich., [1905?]. 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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Conservatory on Belle Isle [Park], interior, Detroit, Mich.

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Few places in Detroit's public parks show the glasshouse side of city life as clearly as the conservatory on Belle Isle, the island park in the Detroit River. This view looks inside the building, where rows of potted plants and foliage fill the space beneath the glass roof. The conservatory was a gift to the city from Anna Scripps Whitcomb, and it drew visitors who crossed to the island by ferry. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative around 1905, produced many views of the city's parks and streets, and this interior offers a useful record of how the island presented itself to the public at the time.

Created / published[1905?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 3148" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034043. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsGreenhouses. Interiors. Plants.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67180

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