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View in Chester Park, Cincinnati, Ohio – Historic Reproduction

View in Chester Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, [1906?] — historic photograph
View in Chester Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, [1906?]. Historic photograph from the Cincinnati 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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A window into the past: View in Chester Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Chester Park, an amusement park in Cincinnati, is the setting here, and the windmill in the subject list gives the scene an unusual touch of rural whimsy amid the park's attractions. Turn-of-the-century amusement parks like this one drew city residents by streetcar for picnics, dancing, boating and rides, and they were a common subject for commercial photographers of the period. The Detroit Publishing Company made many such views of American cities and landmarks, and this glass negative is dated to about 1906 based on the company's catalog. Its survival as a dry plate negative makes it a useful record of how the park looked in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). G 3691" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019596. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsAmusement parks. Windmills.United States--Ohio--Cincinnati.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62948

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