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Water tower, Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich. – Antique Print

Water tower, Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Water tower, Water Works 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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This rare historic photograph captures Water tower, Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich. 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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Water tower, Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich.

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The tower at Water Works Park stands out as the engineered center of a park that grew up beside the city's water system. Elevated tanks like this one used gravity to hold pressure steady across the water mains, so the structure was a working utility as much as a landmark. This view is a dry plate glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American cities around 1900 to 1910 and sold the pictures as souvenir views and postcards. The company's large-format negatives capture the sharp detail of the period's industrial and civic architecture, including the way parkland and utility buildings were often designed to sit together.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 2943" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 068071. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsWaterworks. Parks. Water towers.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71535

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