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Driveway near Field Museum [of Natural History], Jackson Park, Chicago, Ill. – Historic Reproduction

Driveway near Field Museum [of Natural History], Jackson Park, Chicago, Ill., c1907. — historic photograph
Driveway near Field Museum [of Natural History], Jackson Park, Chicago, Ill., c1907.. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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 window into the past: Driveway near Field Museum [of Natural History], Jackson Park, Chicago, Ill., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Driveway near Field Museum [of Natural History], Jackson Park, Chicago, Ill.

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A tree-lined drive curves past the Field Museum of Natural History in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side, as it appeared around 1907. The museum had occupied the white Palace of Fine Arts, a survivor of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, since 1894, and the park's lawns and lagoons were laid out for that fair by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued views like this across the country, recorded the scene on 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negatives, two close variants of which survive, and one has a crack in its upper right corner. The photographer may have been Hans Behm.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesPossibly by Hans Behm. Negatives are close variants. Negative A cracked upper right. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070171. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsParks. Streets.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71755

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