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[Murray Hill and Belmont hotels, New York, N.Y.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Murray Hill and Belmont hotels, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Murray Hill and Belmont hotels, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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: [Murray Hill and Belmont hotels, 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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[Murray Hill and Belmont hotels, New York, N.Y.]

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The pairing of the Murray Hill and Belmont hotels puts this view on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, where a cluster of large hotels grew up in the decades after the Civil War as the city's commercial and social center moved north. The picture survives as an 8-by-10-inch glass dry plate negative, a format that offered sharp detail for large-scale architectural views. It came from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American cities, railroads and scenic sites roughly between 1890 and 1920. Its negative is held in the Detroit Publishing Company Collection at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. H 336" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036486. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67962

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