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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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Step back in time with Conservatory on Belle Isle [Park], interior, Detroit, Mich., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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

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The fern-filled interior of the conservatory on Belle Isle, the island park in the Detroit River, sets this view apart from the city street scenes in the collection. The glasshouse was built as a public greenhouse for the park, and its tropical and fern collections gave Detroit residents a warm, green refuge in winter. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of American cities and landscapes in the early 1900s, made many such images of civic buildings and parks. The glass negative, with its fine detail in the foliage, shows how photographers of the period recorded the glass roofs, iron framing and crowded plantings of a showpiece public space.

Created / published[1905?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 3149" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034042. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsGreenhouses. Interiors. Ferns.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67179

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