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[Valley Green, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.] – Antique Print

[Valley Green, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Valley Green, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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[Valley Green, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Valley Green, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.]

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Valley Green, a wooded stretch along Wissahickon Creek inside Fairmount Park, is the setting here, and the record's subject tags point to the hotels and restaurants that drew visitors there. Fairmount Park was established in the 1850s as a large public green space, and by the early 1900s the Wissahickon valley had become a popular spot for summer outings, carriage rides and meals at creekside inns. This 8 by 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sent photographers across the country to record scenic places and sold the views to travelers and publishers. It was made sometime between 1900 and 1915.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 6109" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039141. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Restaurants. Parks.United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68828

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