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Central Park, Davenport, Iowa

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View of children on a spring day in Central Park. In 1885 the city of Davenport acquired the property that had been the Scott County Fairgrounds. It is a significant example of landscape planning, and of the civic improvements that were being made by the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Five years after the land was purchased and improved it was named Central Park after New York City's park of the same name. Central Park was renamed Vander Veer after an early Davenport park commissioner in 1911. Located at 215 West Central Park Avenue, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, the park consists of 70.8 acres, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1908 postmark. Number 13206.
Title Central Park, Davenport, Iowa
Alternative TitleVander Veer Botanical Park
Index Date 1908
Publisher Souvenir Post Card Co. (New York, N.Y.)
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Hand-tinted real photo reprint, divided back. Made in Germany.
Note Color
citation/reference National Register of Historic Places (http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/); National Park Service NPGallery (https://npgallery.nps.gov/)
Date Issued 1908?
Note Purchase or donation
Note Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Language English
Topic Lakes and ponds
Topic Central Park
Topic Parks
Topic Scott County (Iowa)
Topic Davenport (Iowa)
Topic Vander Veer Botanical Park
Cartographic 41.544202, -90.574846
Classification MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_davenp0004
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_davenp0004
Identifier (local) grinnell:16958
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Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/16958
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