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[New York, N.Y., Custom House and Bowling Green] – Vintage Wall Art

[New York, N.Y., Custom House and Bowling Green], [between 1907 and 1910] — historic photograph
[New York, N.Y., Custom House and Bowling Green], [between 1907 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: [New York, N.Y., Custom House and Bowling Green], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Bowling Green, the small triangular park at the foot of Broadway, frames this view of the United States Custom House. Cass Gilbert's granite building was finished around 1907, and its Beaux-Arts facade was meant to project federal authority at the city's commercial core. The Detroit Publishing Company recorded this scene on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative between 1907 and 1910, and the park itself dates to the colonial era and is often cited as the oldest public park in New York City.

Created / published[between 1907 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. H 458" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036492. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. United States Custom House (New York, N.Y.) Customhouses.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67968

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