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[Belle Isle Park, concert on Children's Day, Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Print

[Belle Isle Park, concert on Children's Day, Detroit, Mich.], [1902 June 4] — historic photograph
[Belle Isle Park, concert on Children's Day, Detroit, Mich.], [1902 June 4]. 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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A window into the past: [Belle Isle Park, concert on Children's Day, Detroit, Mich.], 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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[Belle Isle Park, concert on Children's Day, Detroit, Mich.]

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Belle Isle, the island park in the Detroit River, is the setting for this view of a concert held on Children's Day in June 1902. The crowd of children and grown-ups gathered for the program is what sets this scene apart from the park's many landscape views. The picture comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented the city and its parks in large-format glass negatives like this 8 x 10 inch plate. Belle Isle had become one of Detroit's main public gathering places by the turn of the century, so the image also records how the city used its green spaces for shared civic events.

Created / published[1902 June 4]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle and date from jacket. Close variant of negative D4-14283. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032751. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsChildren. Children's Day. Parks. Crowds.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66222

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