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Dancing pavilion, High Bridge Park, High Bridge, Ky. – Historic Print

Dancing pavilion, High Bridge Park, High Bridge, Ky., [1907?] — historic photograph
Dancing pavilion, High Bridge Park, High Bridge, Ky., [1907?]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Set beside the Kentucky River at High Bridge, this dancing pavilion stood in a park that drew visitors for outings and evening entertainment. The record dates the view to about 1907, a period when open-air pavilions like this were a common feature of American resorts and picnic grounds. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made the glass negative, photographed scenery and towns across the country for travel promotion and postcards. Its wide-angle views are valuable today for showing how recreation spaces were laid out in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[1907?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 4248" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019985. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDance halls. Parks.United States--Kentucky--High Bridge.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63287

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