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Riverside Park, New York – Historic Reproduction

Riverside Park, New York, c[between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
Riverside Park, New York, c[between 1900 and 1906]. 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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Grant's Tomb rises at the right edge of this view, the granite memorial to Ulysses S. Grant that opened in 1897 on a bluff above the Hudson. Beside it stretches Riverside Park, the long strip of public ground that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed along the river on Manhattan's West Side. The Detroit Publishing Company issued travel views like this one for a national market eager to see American cities. The glass negative is dated between 1900 and 1906 from the company's own catalog, so it shows the park only a few years after the tomb was completed.

Created / publishedc[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Reproductions.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Grant's Tomb [General Grant National Memorial] at right. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013391. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsParks. Waterfronts. Tombs & sepulchral monuments.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 711 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76720

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