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[New York City: Metropolitan Opera House] – Antique Print

[New York City: Metropolitan Opera House], c1902. — historic photograph
[New York City: Metropolitan Opera House], c1902.. 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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Step back in time with [New York City: Metropolitan Opera House], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Metropolitan Opera House stood at Broadway and 39th Street, a grand 1883 building that housed the company until it moved to Lincoln Center in 1966. The record dates the photograph to about 1902 and credits Irving Underhill, a photographer who recorded New York street scenes in the early twentieth century. A caption tracing on the card also lists "Elev. RR," which may point to the elevated railway nearby, though the record itself flags that information as unverified. The contrast between the opera house's ornate design and the busy commercial streets around it is worth noticing.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Elev. RR.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147775

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