Picnic grounds at Lemont, Ill's. – Antique Wall Art
![Picnic grounds at Lemont, Ill's., [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d6/d60a920fb39e-L.webp)
(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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Picnic grounds at Lemont, Ill's. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Picnic grounds at Lemont, Ill's.
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Two glass negatives, joined side by side, record the picnic grounds at Lemont, a village southwest of Chicago, and the record lists a pedestrian bridge among the subjects, so the footbridge is worth looking for alongside the grove and open lawns. The Detroit Publishing Company made the view sometime between about 1900 and 1905, when the firm was producing many travel and scenic views of American towns and landscapes. Outings to parks on the edge of growing cities were a popular pastime then, and the wide panoramic format shows how such grounds were arranged for visitors.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1905] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Panoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-21257, 21256. 856" on L negative; "855" on R negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 047016. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Parks. Pedestrian bridges.United States--Illinois--Lemont. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 796 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-70633 |
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