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Conservatory & gardens, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill. – Vintage Print

Conservatory & gardens, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill., c1905. — historic photograph
Conservatory & gardens, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill., c1905.. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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: Conservatory & gardens, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Conservatory & gardens, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill.

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Lincoln Park's glasshouses, the conservatory and its surrounding gardens on Chicago's North Side, are the focus of this view, which shows the park as a place of plant displays and promenades rather than as a single building. The conservatory opened in 1891 and quickly became one of the city's best-known public attractions, offering tropical plants and seasonal flower shows to visitors who came from across the city. The photograph is a glass-plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that made large numbers of city and landscape views around 1905 for tourism and promotion. Its 8 by 10 inch format gives the fine detail in the plantings and glass structures.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 018838. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsGardens. Parks. Greenhouses.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 758 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62315

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