Delaware Park Photographs

Delaware Park Photographs: 1902-1908

The Detroit Publishing Company was an early publisher of postcards, prints and albums, primarily of locations within the United States. It commissioned photographers to photograph the views which formed its body of work. After a period of commercial success, the company fell on hard times. Motion pictures and radio overtook its products as a favored mode of entertainment, and less expensive printing processes than the quality photolithographic methods it used also challenged the business. It failed 1924, and saw its assets liquidated in 1932. Its massive archive of glass plate negatives and transparencies were preserved, with much of the collection coming into the possession of the Library of Congress. The images on this page were electronically reproduced by the Libary of Congress from the original 8" x 10" glass plate negatives. The full collection is web-accessable, and is searchable by keyword, subject or location.

Photograph, Path near Delaware Park Lake
(Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.)

Path near Delaware Park lake - circa 1906.

Photograph, Delaware Park Lake
(Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.)

Boat landing in Delaware Park - between 1903 and 1906.

Photograph, Bridge, Delaware Park.
(Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.)

Bridge in Delaware Park, from boat landing - circa 1908.

Photograph, Delaware Park Lake
(Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.)

Lake in Delaware Park - circa 1902.

Photograph, Delaware Park Lake
(Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.)

Lake in Delaware Park - circa 1902.
(Note the Pan American Exhibition buildings visible in the background.)

Photograph, Delaware Park Lake Lagoon
(Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.)

Lagoon, Delaware Park Lake - between 1902 and 1910.

Photograph, Ivy Arch
(Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.)

Dell Span, or Ivy Arch, Delaware Park, circa 1908.

Photograph, Ivy Arch
(Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.)

Dell Span, or Ivy Arch, Delaware Park - circa 1908.

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