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Postcard: Entrance to Zoological Garden, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA (glitter on card) Click here to buy this item now on Delcampe   | |
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Subject: Entrance to Zoological Garden, Fairmount Park
(glitter on card) Condition: Very Good (See scans) Back side: Simple Circulated: Yes Year: Ca. 1910 Publisher: Douglass Post-Card Postmark: "The park grew out of the Lemon Hill estate of Henry Pratt, whose land was originally owned by Robert Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was dedicated to the public by city council's ordinance on September 15, 1855. A series of state and local legislative acts over the next three years increased the holdings of the city, incorporating mansions, waterworks, gardens, and even territory previously set aside for the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. In 1858, the city called for a comprehensive plan and the new Fairmount Park Commission held a design competition to determine the best way to “protect and improve the purity of the Schuylkill water supply” while also creating a naturally landscaped public park. As the site of the 1876 Centennial Exposition and the first
zoo in the United States, the Philadelphia Zoo, Fairmount Park was
placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 7,
1972." (Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmount_Park) | |