New York (City) - City Hall - Front view – Vintage Print
(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 (City) - City Hall - Front view, 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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New York (City) - City Hall - Front view
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City Hall in lower Manhattan, seen from the front, anchors this view of the building that has served as the seat of New York City's government since the 1810s. Completed in 1812 in a restrained Federal style, its marble-faced facade faces the open green of City Hall Park, and the building stands as one of the oldest continuously used municipal halls in the country. Photographs from around 1915 capture it at a time when the surrounding blocks were filling with elevated railway lines, streetcars and the growing bulk of commercial towers, so the modest scale of the hall stands out against the city growing up around it. The print is a useful record of how the civic center looked just before the skyline changed dramatically in the following decades.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1915. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,206 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-121811 |
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