New York from Brooklyn – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of New York from Brooklyn brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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New York from Brooklyn
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Five glass negatives, joined into one wide view, make this a panorama of the Manhattan waterfront as seen from Brooklyn across the East River. Made around 1901 by the Detroit Photographic Company, whose large-format views were sold to tourists and collectors, it shows the river busy with boats, a reminder of how heavily freight and passenger traffic moved between the two shores. The record notes painted skies and retouched glass, techniques photographers used to balance bright water and cloud against the dense city below. Plates measuring 18 by 22 inches were built for fine detail, so the rooftops and riverfront can still be read closely more than a century later.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 5 negatives : glass ; 18 x 22 in. |
| Genre | Cityscape photographs.Mammoth plates.Panoramic photographs.Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Negatives form a five-part panorama. Center negative listed in Detroit Publishing Co. negative log as enlargement from no. 10517. Glass varnished on left, left center, center and right negatives; glass painted on right center negative; sky painted on right negative; sky masked on center negative. Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co." on right negative. "010244" on left negative; "10244-5 sec-[...]" on center negative; "10244-5 sec-R" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. panorama no. 010244. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Rivers. Boats.United States--New York (State)--New York.United States--New York (State)--East River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-80093 |
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