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[Springfield, Mass., Connecticut River and city from Forest Park] – Historic Print

[Springfield, Mass., Connecticut River and city from Forest Park], [between 1890 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Springfield, Mass., Connecticut River and city from Forest Park], [between 1890 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Looking across the Connecticut River from the heights of Forest Park, this view takes in the bend of the water and the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, as it stood in the decades around 1900. The Detroit Publishing Company, which hired photographers to document American towns, landscapes and tourist sites in this period, produced such views for sale as postcards and illustrated books. Forest Park, laid out on the city's outskirts in the 1880s, was a popular place for residents to picnic and take in the valley, which is why a vantage point there became a favored subject. Note that this glass negative is broken in half crosswise, so only part of the original plate survives.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Negative broken in half crosswise; only one half is in jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033653. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsRivers. Parks.United States--Massachusetts--Springfield.United States--Connecticut River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66869

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