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2023.055.3.0380Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a large river bend with trees on either side, a bridge going across the water is seen in the midground. Above the image "39" is printed, below the image "32157 Scene in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D. C." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
32157
SCENE IN ROCK CREEK PARK, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Half a dozen streets lead more or less directly from the vicinity of Dupont Circle northwestward to the fasthesses of Rock Crrek Park and the National Zoological Park adjoining it on the S. Both of these reservations lie among th deep revines and abrupt hills bordering the narrow, winding valley of Rock Creek. In the case of the Zoological Park, the nature of the gorund, 175 acres in extent, furnishes admirable sites for the enclosures and cages of the various animals and birds displayed, among which the exhibits of native American mammals and wild fowl are the best and most complete.
Rock Creek Park itself, however, in one of whose glades we are now standing, is even more unusual than the Zoological Park. It (unreadable) 1606 acres of hill and valley, forest and stream, acquired in 1890 to make a great public park for Washington. Concerning it Viscount James Bryce, former British Ambassador to the U.S., has written appreciatively: "There is nothing comparable to it in any capital city of Europe. What city in the world is there where a man can within a quarter of an hour on his own feet get in a beautiful rocky glen, such as you would find in the woods of Maine or Scotland - a winding rocky glen wht a broad stream foaming over its rocky bed, and wild, leafy woods looking down on each side, where you not only have a carriage road at the bottom, but an inexhaustible variety of footpaths, where you can force your way through thickets and test your physical ability in scaling the faces of bold cliffs?" Pedestrians, horseback riders and motorists alike delight in the sinuous, deep-shadowed roadways, shallow fords, and rustic bridges of this fragment of the wilderness close to the hear of a great city.
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