Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif. – Antique Wall Art
(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: Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Few places in the city look as the Japanese Tea Garden does in this view of Golden Gate Park, with its curving paths, arched bridges, and carefully shaped plantings. The garden began as a Japanese village exhibit at the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, and it stayed in the park after the fair closed. Later it was tended by the Hagiwara family, who expanded it into the landscape visitors know today. The Detroit Publishing Company sold views like this one as commercial prints, so the picture also reflects how the park was marketed to tourists in the early 1900s.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photograph copyrighted by the Detroit Photographic Co. No. 017255 - no original neg. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Gardens...; Ca.--SF--Parks; Tea; Geogr.; Parks; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140152 |
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