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[Battery Park from the water, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[Battery Park from the water, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Battery Park from the water, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(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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A window into the past: [Battery Park from the water, New York, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Battery Park from the water, New York, N.Y.]

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Taken from the water, this view puts Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan beside the tugboats working the harbor, a reminder of how much of the city's commerce moved by river and bay in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative sometime between 1905 and 1910, sent photographers across the country to record cities, railways and landscapes for sale as prints and postcards. The Battery, built partly on landfill at the island's end, was a busy gateway for ferries and steamships, so the boats in the foreground reflect the working waterfront that surrounded the park.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. H 481" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036472. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. Tugboats.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67948

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