E.T. Barnum Wire & Iron Works
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Description
Display from E.T. Barnum Wire & Iron Works. Wrought iron fence surrounds furniture; pavilion, urns; trellises; statuary; weather vanes. Sign over arch reads: "Maple A.C. Fisk Park." Wire sign: "E.T. Barnum Wire & Iron Works, 105 Woodward Ave., Chicago Branch, 100 Lake Street, cresting, wire signs, iron fences, vases & statuary, wire & silk bolting cloth; cheese & milk (?), weather vanes, jail work, wire landscape cloth, stable fixtures." Sign at left: "Public thoroughfare, see our exhibit in Main Hall." Handwritten on back: "State Fair exhibit on site of Ford Highland Pk. Plant." Stamped on back: "Earle & Hawley, commercial photographers, 16 & 18 Clifford Street, Detroit, Mich."
Details
- Creator:
- Earle & Hawley
- Resource ID:
- DPA3120
- Subject:
- Iron industry and trade--Michigan--Detroit
- Wire industry--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Albumen prints
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 7 x 9 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- D/Industries & business houses-Barnum, E.T., Wire & Iron Works
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.