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[Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Penn.] – Historic Reproduction

[Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Penn.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Penn.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Philadelphia 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Penn.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Penn.]

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Sheep grazing on the open grass of Fairmount Park set this scene apart from the carriages and promenades that usually fill views of the city. The park, laid out along the Schuylkill River and established by the city in 1855, was among the largest urban parks in the country, and its meadows served both leisure and practical uses. The picture comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which between about 1890 and 1924 produced large numbers of photographs and color prints of American places for travelers and publishers. The glass negatives, dated here between 1900 and 1910, record how one green corner of Philadelphia looked in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium6 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Genreand H 419" on L
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19144, 19143, 19142, 19141, 19140, 19139. H 413
SubjectsParks. Sheep.United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68520

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