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[A Bridge, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Print

[A Bridge, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[A Bridge, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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[A Bridge, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.]

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Belle Isle, a 982-acre island park in the Detroit River, is the setting for this view of a bridge over one of its waterways, which the record lists among its canal subjects. The island was laid out with landscape designs by Frederick Law Olmsted and Jacob Wrey Mould in the 1880s, and by the early 1900s its winding drives, lagoons, and footbridges had made it a popular place for Detroiters to escape the city. The picture survives as an 8 x 10 inch glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented American towns and landscapes in this period.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 5015" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036377. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBridges. Parks. Canals.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67871

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