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Elk in Walbridge Park, Toledo, O[hio] – Historic Reproduction

Elk in Walbridge Park, Toledo, O[hio], [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
Elk in Walbridge Park, Toledo, O[hio], [between 1900 and 1906]. 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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Few details of this view stand out as much as its subject: a live elk kept in Walbridge Park, a Toledo, Ohio, public park. Captive elk and deer were a common sight in American city parks in the early 1900s, when municipal parks often included animal enclosures for families to visit. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass-plate negative between about 1900 and 1906, sold such scenes of towns, parks and landscapes as photographic prints and postcards. The negative later reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). 2038 B" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018289. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsElk. Parks.United States--Ohio--Toledo.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61821

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