Michigan, the lighthouse, Palmer Park, Detroit – Antique Wall Art
![Michigan, the lighthouse, Palmer Park, Detroit, [ca. 1900] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/84/8468de26bf6b-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 Michigan, the lighthouse, Palmer Park, Detroit, a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Michigan, the lighthouse, Palmer Park, Detroit
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The lighthouse in this view stands in Palmer Park, a wooded green on Detroit's northwest side that was given to the city in the 1890s by Senator Thomas W. Palmer, which makes the picture a reminder of how the city's parks were built as places for leisure and civic pride. The photochrom process used here was a Swiss method that transferred photographs into full color through a series of stone lithographs, and the Detroit Photographic Company, later the Detroit Publishing Company, acquired its rights in the United States. Prints like this one were made for sale and for catalog albums, so they show how the company presented Detroit's scenery to a national audience around 1900.
| Created / published | [ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 51128. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955. |
| Subjects | Lighthouses. Parks.United States--Michigan--Detroit. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 527 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-78884 |
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