Katzenjammer Castle and toboggan, Wildwood, St. Paul, Minn. – Vintage Print
![Katzenjammer Castle and toboggan, Wildwood, St. Paul, Minn., [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/50/500709eecd57-L.webp)
(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 Katzenjammer Castle and toboggan, Wildwood, St. Paul, Minn., a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Katzenjammer Castle and toboggan, Wildwood, St. Paul, Minn.
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The subject here is Katzenjammer Castle, a fanciful building at Wildwood, the amusement park on White Bear Lake just north of St. Paul, Minnesota. Its name came from the popular *Katzenjammer Kids* comic strip, which was then drawing wide audiences. Beside the castle, a toboggan slide, an early gravity-powered coaster with sleds running down an inclined track, shows how the park offered thrills alongside its lakeside pleasures. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass negative around 1900 to 1906, sold views of resorts and scenic places across the country, so the picture captures a popular summer destination of that era.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1906] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). G 2169" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018185. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Amusement parks. Roller coasters.United States--Minnesota--White Bear Lake. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-61756 |
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