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[Fairmount Park, Grant Monument, Philadelphia, Pa.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Fairmount Park, Grant Monument, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1895 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Fairmount Park, Grant Monument, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1895 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Philadelphia 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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[Fairmount Park, Grant Monument, Philadelphia, Pa.]

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Fairmount Park's Grant monument commemorates Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who led the Northern armies to victory in the Civil War and later served two terms as the 18th president. The statue stands in one of the largest urban parks in the country, a landscape of woods, drives, and monuments that grew out of the 1876 Centennial Exposition. This glass dry plate negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting American cities and landmarks in the decades around 1900. Its 8 by 10 inch format gave the company's photographers sharp detail for making prints of civic sculpture.

Created / published[between 1895 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. X 48 extra" and "12" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032183. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885--Statues. Sculpture. Parks.United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-65840

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