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[Fresh pond, Cambridge, Mass.] – Vintage Print

[Fresh pond, Cambridge, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Fresh pond, Cambridge, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1920]. 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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Fresh Pond is a kettle-hole pond on the edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and this glass negative shows its shoreline and a path winding along it from the early twentieth century. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced a large body of views of American towns, parks and scenic spots between about 1900 and 1920, made this image as one of many photographs marketed to a public eager to see landscapes they might visit or hang on the wall. The pond had long been a popular place for walking, boating and, in winter, ice harvesting, so the scene captures a recreational landscape that was just beginning to draw crowds from the surrounding city. The 8 by 10 inch glass plate, donated to the Library of Congress in 1949 by the State Historical Society of Colorado, preserves the fine detail that the company's large-format work is known for.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. T 144" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500447. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTrails & paths. Lakes & ponds.United States--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74802

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