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The New York window – Antique Wall Art

The New York window, c[between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
The New York window, c[between 1900 and 1920]. 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: The New York window, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The New York window

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The subject here is a painting rather than a street or building: a reproduction of Childe Hassam's *The New York Window*, copied onto a glass dry plate negative. Hassam, one of the leading American Impressionists, spent much of his career painting the city from upper floors, looking down on busy avenues, rooftops, and weather-softened light. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued this copy, produced photographic reproductions of paintings and views for sale to a broad public in the early 1900s, so the plate offers a glimpse of how Hassam's work reached viewers who could not see the originals. The glass negative format also shows the photographic methods of the period.

Created / publishedc[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Paintings Reproductions.
NotesPhotograph of a painting, signed Childe Hassam." Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 188. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75402

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