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Curling, Van Cortlandt Park, New York – Vintage Wall Art

Curling, Van Cortlandt Park, New York, n/a — historic photograph
Curling, Van Cortlandt Park, New York, n/a. 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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Curling, Van Cortlandt Park, New York comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Curling, Van Cortlandt Park, New York

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Curling at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx is an unusual subject for a New York photograph, since the sport is more often linked with Scotland and Canada than with the city's parks. Van Cortlandt Park was a large public green space in the northwestern Bronx, and its ponds and frozen surfaces drew winter crowds for skating and other cold-weather pastimes. This glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, made by the Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in New York and beyond in the early twentieth century. The record gives no exact date, so the scene is best read as a glimpse of winter recreation in the city during that period.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,816 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-1352

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