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Rustic theatre, Riverton Park, Portland, Me. – Vintage Print

Rustic theatre, Riverton Park, Portland, Me., [between 1890 and 1910] — historic photograph
Rustic theatre, Riverton Park, Portland, Me., [between 1890 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 Rustic theatre, Riverton Park, Portland, Me.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rustic theatre, Riverton Park, Portland, Me.

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Riverton Park, on the edge of Portland, Maine, is the setting for this rustic theater, a open-air stage built to look like a retreat in the woods. Trolley companies developed parks like Riverton around the turn of the twentieth century to give city residents a reason to ride the lines on weekends, with picnic groves, boating, dancing and summer entertainment. The rough, natural-looking style was a deliberate contrast to the brick playhouses downtown. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed towns, resorts and landscapes across the country between about 1890 and 1910, recorded the building on a glass plate negative.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes2363" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 062085. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTheaters. Parks.United States--Maine--Portland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70831

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