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[Riverside Drive and Riverside Park, New York, N.Y.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Riverside Drive and Riverside Park, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Riverside Drive and Riverside Park, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915]. 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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A window into the past: [Riverside Drive and Riverside Park, New York, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Riverside Drive, the long road that follows the Hudson along Manhattan's West Side, is the focus here, with Riverside Park stretching beside it. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that produced large numbers of views of American towns, parks and scenic routes in the early twentieth century, made this 8 x 10 inch glass negative sometime between 1905 and 1915. Riverside Drive was laid out in the late 1800s as a carefully landscaped boulevard, and the park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, was meant to give residents a green stretch above the river. The view shows how the city's planned open space met the growing residential avenues of the period.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7413" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039956. 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 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69357

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