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Lily pond, Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Ct. – Vintage Wall Art

Lily pond, Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Ct., c1905. — historic photograph
Lily pond, Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Ct., c1905.. Historic photograph from the Hartford 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 Lily pond, Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Ct. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Lily pond, Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Ct.

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Water lilies cover the surface of the pond at Elizabeth Park in Hartford, Connecticut, in this glass-plate negative from about 1905. The park was created from land given to the city in the 1890s by Charles Pond and his sister Adele, and by the early twentieth century its gardens drew visitors from across the region. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed towns, parks and scenery across the country, made this view as part of a large body of work on American places. Its 8 by 10 inch plate captures a quiet corner of a city landscape at a time when public parks were valued as places for leisure and civic pride.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes2171" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018046. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLily ponds. Parks.United States--Connecticut--Hartford.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61656

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