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Saratoga - the afternoon promenade on Broadway in front of the Grand Union Hotel – Antique Print

Saratoga - the afternoon promenade on Broadway in front of the Grand Union Hotel, 1875 — antique engraving
Saratoga - the afternoon promenade on Broadway in front of the Grand Union Hotel, 1875. Antique engraving from the Saratoga 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: Saratoga - the afternoon promenade on Broadway in front of the Grand Union Hotel, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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In the afternoon, Broadway in Saratoga Springs became a slow parade of carriages and strolling visitors before the Grand Union Hotel, the sprawling resort hotel that drew society guests each summer. This wood engraving, made from a sketch by Harry Ogden, appeared in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* in August 1875. Saratoga's mineral springs and its horse racing made it one of the most fashionable summer destinations in the country, and the magazine's engravings were the main way readers far from the resort could see such scenes. The print shows how the promenade doubled as a place to see and be seen.

Created / published1875
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Wood engraving after sketch by Harry Ogden. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 40, no. 1038 (1875 Aug. 21), p. 412. Caption card tracings: Geogr; Promenades; Publ. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,080 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157699

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