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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 15, 2020
Caption: Parks for the People Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) Looking southwest at North Park in 1910. North Park was the location of the first fairgrounds of Billings.; (bottom center) Portrait of Dorothy Gray in the Billings High School yearbook in 1914 which included the quote, "In her quietness there is a charm." A graduate of Cornell University, she became the landscape architect of Pioneer Park in 1921.; (bottom right) An aerial view of Pioneer Park and the surrounding North Elevation neighborhood in 1926.: (upper right) The pool at South Park. Open in 1914, the South Park pool was considered the largest city owned pool in the west.
Submitted: March 10, 2021, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p572337
File Size: 3.187 Megabytes

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