Tree-lined forest drive with cyclist and carriage, Belle Isle – Historic Print
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Tree-lined forest drive with cyclist and carriage, Belle Isle comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Tree-lined forest drive with cyclist and carriage, Belle Isle
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Belle Isle, the large island park in the Detroit River, gives this scene its setting: a shaded forest drive where a lone cyclist and a horse-drawn carriage share the same winding road. Belle Isle was laid out as a public park in the 1880s, and its curving drives were built for leisure rather than commerce, so pleasure carriages and bicycles were a common sight there in the late 1800s. The bicycle boom of the 1890s brought cycling onto such park roads, and a picture like this one shows the uneasy mix of older and newer modes of travel on a single lane. Notice how the canopy of trees frames the road and the figures, a common device in period park views.
| Original scan | 7,147 × 5,180 px · prints to 24 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 18292u detroit belle |
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