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[Lily pond, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill.] – Vintage Print

[Lily pond, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Lily pond, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Step back in time with [Lily pond, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Lily pond, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill.]

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Few views of Chicago's South Side parks from this period survive in such detail as this glass negative of the lily pond in Washington Park. The park was laid out in the 1870s under the design partnership of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, and its water features were meant to give city residents a quiet, pastoral setting. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large numbers of travel views between the 1890s and the 1920s, made pictures like this one for sale to tourists and readers of illustrated booklets. The record notes that the photographer may have been Hans Behm, though that attribution is uncertain.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly by Hans Behm. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034725. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsParks. Lily ponds.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67537

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