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Children's bathing beach, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill. – Vintage Print

Children's bathing beach, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill., c1905. — historic photograph
Children's bathing beach, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill., c1905.. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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A window into the past: Children's bathing beach, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Children's bathing beach, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill.

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A children's bathing beach in Lincoln Park puts a specific piece of Chicago's lakefront leisure on record around 1905. Beaches like this one, along Lake Michigan, were part of a wider effort by reformers and park boards to give crowded city neighborhoods access to open water, sunshine and fresh air in summer. The picture is a large glass negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American towns, parks and scenery for sale to tourists and publishers in the early twentieth century, which makes its view of everyday public leisure especially useful to historians.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 018837. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsBeaches. Parks. Children playing outdoors.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62314

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