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Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Broadway and 168th St., New York City – Vintage Wall Art

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Broadway and 168th St., New York City, c1931. — historic photograph
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Broadway and 168th St., New York City, c1931.. 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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Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Broadway and 168th St., New York City

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The view centers on the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center at Broadway and 168th Street, a complex that took shape in Washington Heights as the medical school and New York Presbyterian Hospital moved uptown from their older downtown sites in the late 1920s. The campus was planned as a single institution, with its major buildings grouped around a central court and designed in a Gothic-influenced style meant to suggest permanence. Irving Underhill, the photographer and copyright holder named on this print, made many views of the city's architecture and street life in this period, and the picture records a newly built medical landmark at an early stage of its life.

Created / publishedc1931.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No. C20637. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Hospitals.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,209 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-150458

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