Yonkers Park Hill from Valentine Hill, New York, 1902 – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Step back in time with Yonkers Park Hill from Valentine Hill, New York, 1902, a historic image rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: [Park Hill from Valentine Hill]
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Yonkers Park Hill from Valentine Hill, New York, 1902
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The record gives us little beyond a wide black and white view of a hillside road lined with houses, so the most useful way to read it is as a document of a streetscape. Panoramic photographs like this were often made with specialized cameras that exposed a long strip of film, producing a stretched horizon that captures the rise and fall of the land and the way houses were set along a slope. In New York City, hillside streets of this kind were common in the outer boroughs and the Bronx, where grading and early residential development reshaped the terrain. Looking closely, the viewer can trace how the road climbs and how each dwelling sits at its own level above the street.
| Created / published | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Creator | american panoramic view co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New York |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 2,140 px · prints to 18 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Park Hill from Valentine Hill] |
| Reference | NY 1902 Yonkers Park Hill from Valentine Hill |
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