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Fountain and pavilion, Cherokee Park, Louisville, Ky. – Antique Wall Art

Fountain and pavilion, Cherokee Park, Louisville, Ky., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Fountain and pavilion, Cherokee Park, Louisville, Ky., [between 1900 and 1910]. 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 images capture their era like this historic photograph of Fountain and pavilion, Cherokee Park, Louisville, Ky.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Fountain and pavilion, Cherokee Park, Louisville, Ky.

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Cherokee Park, laid out in Louisville by Frederick Law Olmsted's firm in the 1880s and 1890s, was one of the city's showpiece green spaces, and this glass-plate negative records one of its fountain-and-pavilion scenes from the years around 1900. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated from the 1890s into the 1920s, made large-format views like this one to document American cities, parks and landscapes, often for promotional sale as postcards and booklets. Its catalog number and the handwritten code on the negative help place the image within that commercial effort. Pictures of rustic park structures and water features like this one show how urban parks were meant to offer fresh air and orderly leisure to city residents.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 4325" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070045. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. Sports & recreation facilities. Fountains.United States--Kentucky--Louisville.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71636

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