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Rustic Arbor, ca. 1890.
The Great Outdoors: Prospect Park Edition
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Prospect Park is the second largest public park in Brooklyn. Famous for its trees and manmade wetlands, the 596-acre park also contains the bulk of the borough's remaining indigenous forest. On this walk, The Great Outdoors: Prospect Park Edition, we'll guide you through the park's most leafy and green natural habitats, while also teaching you some history along the way.
Showing Face in Prospect Park
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Since its opening in the 1860s, Prospect Park has been a landmark in the life of many New York families and tourists. In this collection, we'll show you Prospect Park through the people who have traversed through it.
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Rustic Arbor People rest on a bench on the edge of the rustic arbor. There are lush plants on the arbor. Stereograph, c. 1890.
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Herbert Mitchell Collection
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Herbert Mitchell Collection
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Herbert Mitchell Collection
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Herbert Mitchell Collection
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Herbert Mitchell Collection
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Brooklyn: Prospect Park. Brooklyn. Parks Department. Annual Report of the Commissioners for Brooklyn. nos. 1-14 (1860-1873). Brooklyn, N.Y. Illustrations removed from N.Y.P.L. copy of above title, which has been microfilmed and discarded. May 1973.
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Herbert Mitchell Collection
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