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| title: | Harvesting peat at Bacons Pond, Indianapolis |
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| image number: | P0055323 |
| description: | Douglass' description written on negative envelope reads, in full: "Historical | Harvesting Peat | Taken at Bacons Pond, Indianapolis, about 1900. This old man harvested enough peat every summer to last him through the winter" This is probably what was known as Bacon's Swamp named after Hiram Bacon. The swamp is today (2015) the Broad Ripple portion of Indianapolis. Bacon himself was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. |
| date taken: | circa 1900 |
| film code: | Glass-plate (no code visible) |
| photographer studio: | Douglass, Benjamin Wallace |
| donor image number: | D-2182 |
| accession number: | 0778 box 8 |
| copyright owner: | Indiana University |
| personal name: | Unknown Individual/s |
| topic: | Lakes & ponds |
| topic: | Peat |
| city: | Indianapolis |
| state: | Indiana |
| other place name: | Broad Ripple |
| other place name: | Bacon's Swamp |
| series: | Buildings & Grounds |
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