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Lake Worth through cocanut [i.e. coconut] trees, Palm Beach, Fla. – Historic Print

Lake Worth through cocanut [i.e. coconut] trees, Palm Beach, Fla., [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
Lake Worth through cocanut [i.e. coconut] trees, Palm Beach, Fla., [between 1905 and 1915]. 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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Lake Worth through cocanut [i.e. coconut] trees, Palm Beach, Fla.

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Framed by a row of coconut palms, this view looks out over Lake Worth toward the Palm Beach shoreline, with the trunks and fronds serving as a natural frame for the water beyond. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large numbers of photochrom and black-and-white views of American resorts and scenic places around the turn of the twentieth century, sent photographers to Florida as the state's winter tourist trade grew after railroad magnate Henry Flagler extended his line down the east coast. Palm Beach was becoming a fashionable winter destination, and images like this one helped promote the region to visitors and prospective settlers. The glass negative records a landscape that was then still closely tied to its tropical vegetation.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 6941" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071765. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPalms. Walkways. Waterfronts.United States--Florida--Palm Beach.United States--Florida--Worth, Lake.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73001

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