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The New Theater, New York City: Exterior – Historic Reproduction

The New Theater, New York City: Exterior, c1909 Oct. 15. — historic photograph
The New Theater, New York City: Exterior, c1909 Oct. 15.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of The New Theater, New York City: Exterior. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The New Theater, New York City: Exterior

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Few theaters of the period were built with the ambition of the New theater, which stood on Central Park West at the edge of the park when this exterior was photographed in October 1909. Its architects, Carrère & Hastings, were among the most prominent firms of the Beaux-Arts era, and the building's formal classical front reflects that training. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a pioneering photographer of American architecture, recorded the facade for the theater, whose owners copyrighted the image. The house was renamed the Century theater within a few years, and the picture now serves as a record of a building that was defined as much by its architecture as by its productions.

Created / publishedc1909 Oct. 15.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Photo copyrighted by the New Theatre. 134016. Renamed Century Theater. Carrère & Hastings, firm, arch. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Architecture; Theaters--NY; NY--NYC--THEATERS--New Th. Century; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,212 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131337

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