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Italian garden in Bronx Zoo, New York City – Antique Wall Art

Italian garden in Bronx Zoo, New York City, c1910. — historic photograph
Italian garden in Bronx Zoo, New York City, c1910.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Italian garden in Bronx Zoo, New York City. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Italian garden in Bronx Zoo, New York City

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Few zoo photographs from this period show formal garden design, which sets this view apart from the animal enclosures that usually define the Bronx Zoo's image. The Bronx Zoo, then called the New York Zoological Park, opened in 1899 in Bronx Park, and its grounds mixed naturalistic habitats with more ornamental landscaping. Italian-style gardens, with clipped hedges, stone walks, and formal layouts drawn from Renaissance villas, were popular in American parks and estates around 1910. The record's details come from an unverified caption card, so the exact date and the garden's specific features are worth checking against other sources.

Created / publishedc1910.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Zoos; Gardens.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 984 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157580

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