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Gate ajar, Como Park, St. Paul, Minn. – Historic Print

Gate ajar, Como Park, St. Paul, Minn., c1905. — historic photograph
Gate ajar, Como Park, St. Paul, Minn., c1905.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Gate ajar, Como Park, St. Paul, Minn. in remarkable 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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Gate ajar, Como Park, St. Paul, Minn.

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Few images in the Detroit Publishing Company collection capture a park entrance quite like this one, with a gate standing partly open at the head of a stairway lined with flowers. The picture was made around 1905 at Como Park in St. Paul, Minnesota, where the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its photochrom and photographic views of American scenery and towns, sold landscape images to travelers and tourists. Como Park was a popular public green space at the time, and the gate and steps suggest the careful, decorative landscaping that drew visitors there. The record notes this glass negative was a gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado and entered the collection in 1949.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesSupercedes 14778" on jacket. "G 2104" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018178. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. Flowers. Gates. Stairways.United States--Minnesota--Saint Paul.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61749

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