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[Wissahickon Creek, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.] – Historic Print

[Wissahickon Creek, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Wissahickon Creek, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.], [between 1900 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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[Wissahickon Creek, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.]

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Wissahickon Creek winds through a deep, wooded gorge in Fairmount Park, and this 8 x 10 inch glass negative records the stream itself rather than any building or monument nearby. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated from the 1890s into the early 1920s and was known for its color-tinted views of American places, produced the picture sometime between 1900 and 1910. Parks like Fairmount, laid out in the nineteenth century as a green refuge within a rapidly industrializing city, drew photographers and visitors eager to show the creek's rocky banks and shaded water. The negative reached the Library of Congress as part of a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. H 409" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034763. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. Rivers.United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.United States--Pennsylvania--Wissahickon Creek.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67573

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