[Fairmount Park Philadelphia with well-dressed people promenading on a terrace] – Antique Print
![[Fairmount Park Philadelphia with well-dressed people promenading on a terrace], 1870 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a4/a4e2a9067dbe-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 [Fairmount Park Philadelphia with well-dressed people promenading on a terrace], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A terrace crowded with well-dressed strollers gives this stereograph its character, set in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. The park had grown into one of the largest municipal parks in the country by 1870, and its wooded hills and river views drew the city's middle and upper classes for Sunday outings and leisurely walks. Stereograph cards like this one were made as pairs of nearly identical photographs, which a stereoscope fused into a single three-dimensional scene. The Library of Congress catalogs this card in the Marian S. Carson Collection, and its title was written by Library staff rather than taken from the original card.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Title devised by Library staff. · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | Fairmount Park (Philadelphia Pa.)--1870-1900. Parks--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1870-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 5,666 × 3,069 px · prints to 19 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09250_FairmountParkPhiladelphiawithw |
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