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[New York, N.Y., Murray Hill Hotel, Park Ave., 40th and 41st St.] – Vintage Wall Art

[New York, N.Y., Murray Hill Hotel, Park Ave., 40th and 41st St.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[New York, N.Y., Murray Hill Hotel, Park Ave., 40th and 41st St.], [between 1900 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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The Murray Hill Hotel stood on Park Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, on a stretch that was becoming one of Manhattan's more fashionable addresses in the early 1900s, as the avenue's rail corridor was reworked and residential and hotel construction followed. This large glass negative came from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting American cities and landmarks for tourism and promotion. Its record gives the date only as sometime between 1900 and 1910, so the view captures the avenue's streetscape at that time, with the hotel's facade and the surrounding street as they looked before later redevelopment.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 040376. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsMurray Hill Hotel (New York, N.Y.) Hotels. Streets.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan806 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69426

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