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[Detroit Boat Club, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Print

[Detroit Boat Club, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Detroit Boat Club, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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[Detroit Boat Club, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.]

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The Detroit Boat Club stood on Belle Isle, the island park in the Detroit River that the city had turned into a public recreation ground by the late 1870s. Its clubhouse drew rowers, canoeists and sailors to the river's calm channels, and boat clubs like this one were a common sight on the island as urban residents sought open water and fresh air. This view survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented American cities and landscapes in the years around 1900 for travel and commercial sale. Its record places it between 1900 and 1910, a period when Belle Isle was among the city's most popular leisure grounds.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033863. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsClubhouses. Parks. Boat clubs.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67020

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