The Central Park. A delightful resort for the toil-worn New Yorkers – Historic Reproduction
(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 antique engraving captures The Central Park. A delightful resort for the toil-worn New Yorkers in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Central Park. A delightful resort for the toil-worn New Yorkers
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Signs are the subject here, and the joke turns on them. The title promises a "delightful resort" for weary New Yorkers, but the engraving's focus on posted notices suggests a place where visitors were mostly told what they could not do. It ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on June 19, 1869, a weekly known for topical wood engravings. Central Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and opened in sections from the late 1850s, had become a favorite refuge from crowded city streets, so the satire points at a real tension between leisure and regulation.
| Created / published | 1869 June 19. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Cartoons 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1869 June 19, p. 221. |
| Subjects | Parks--New York (State)--New York--1860-1870. Signs--New York (State)--New York--1860-1870. Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,135 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-166703 |
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