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Union Square [Park] from Tiffany's – Vintage Wall Art

Union Square [Park] from Tiffany's, [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
Union Square [Park] from Tiffany's, [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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This rare historic photograph captures Union Square [Park] from Tiffany's in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Union Square [Park] from Tiffany's

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Union Square in Manhattan, photographed from the upper floors of Tiffany's, offers a rare elevated view of a park that was then a busy crossroads of the city. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made tens of thousands of views of American cities and landscapes around 1900, often used such vantage points to show streets and public spaces in sweeping detail. Union Square had long served as a gathering place for political rallies and as a stop for streetcars and carriages, and a picture taken from above captures how the paths, traffic and surrounding storefronts came together. The glass negative, made between 1900 and 1905, is one of the surviving records of the square in that transitional period before the automobile dominated the streets.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 1026" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043007. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Parks.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70008

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