[New York City - Metropolitan Museum of Art] – Antique Print
![[New York City - Metropolitan Museum of Art], c1905. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/01/01b0bf6a4ab5-L.webp)
(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 rare historic photograph captures [New York City - Metropolitan Museum of Art] in remarkable detail. 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 City - Metropolitan Museum of Art]
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The picture shows the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the eastern edge of Central Park, a building that by about 1905 had already grown well beyond its first modest structure. The Beaux-Arts facade on Fifth Avenue, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, was finished in the early 1900s and gave the museum the monumental presence it still has. The caption card files the view under geography, museums, railroad stations and hotels, which suggests it was made as a general-interest view of New York for visitors and collectors of city scenes.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No. D310. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Museums; RR Stations; Hotels. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 896 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147819 |
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