Lakefront, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, 1909 – Antique Photo Print
(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: Lakefront, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, 1909, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Lakefront, Exposition Park, Conneaut Lake, Pa.
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Lakefront, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, 1909
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Conneaut Lake, in Crawford County in northwestern Pennsylvania, was in 1909 one of the state's best-known summer resorts. The lake is a large natural body of water, and visitors arrived by rail and interurban trolley from Pittsburgh, Meadville, and smaller towns across the region. Summer cottages, hotels, boathouses, and the amusement park along the shore drew families who came for a few days or the whole season, while year-round residents of the borough depended on the seasonal trade. Pittsburgh's industrial workforce, with its limited vacation time, made lakeside excursions an important part of working-class leisure in the years before the automobile changed how people travelled.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wilt, w. w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,324 × 905 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Lakefront, Exposition Park, Conneaut Lake, Pa. |
| Reference | PA Lakefront, Conneaut Lake, 1909 |
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