COLLECTION NAME:
Savannah Stereoview Collection
Record
Title:
Music Stand, Forsyth Park
Description:
Black and white stereograph card of Forsyth Park with double image affixed to yellow paper. Title and publication information is printed on front and back is left blank. The Southern Series of stereographs were published in Boston by Charles Pollock. Chandler Seaver, Jr. of Boston was the photographer, and he traveled to other cities such as Charleston and Jacksonville as well as Savannah. Seaver's photographs were taken between 1870 and his death in 1879. Forsyth Park was named for former Georgia Governor John Forsyth (1780-1841). William Brown Hodgson developed the idea to set aside ten acres of wooded land to create Savannah's first recreational park in the 1840s.
Subject:
Forsyth Park (Savannah, Ga.)
Subject:
Parks
Date:
1870-1879
Coverage:
Savannah (Ga.)
Coverage:
Georgia
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
3 1/2 x 7 inches
Format/Medium:
Stereographs
Format/Medium:
Albumen prints
Source:
Savannah Stereoview Collection, MS 018, Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Though this item is believed to be in the Public Domain, copyright may have been retained by the authors or creators of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
