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Log cabin, Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich. – Vintage Print

Log cabin, Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich., c1905. — historic photograph
Log cabin, Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich., c1905.. 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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Log cabin, Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Log cabin, Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich.

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The log cabin in Palmer Park stands out among the Detroit Publishing Company's city views for its rustic design, which was a deliberate choice in turn-of-the-century park planning. Palmer Park, on the city's northwest side, was named for Thomas W. Palmer, the Detroit businessman and U.S. senator whose land became the park. Rustic log shelters and cabins like this one were popular in American parks of the period, where they suggested a natural retreat within the city. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued photographs and color prints of Detroit and other places, made this 5 x 7 inch glass negative around 1905.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 18559. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsLog cabins. Parks.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 709 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76732

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