New York City: N.Y. Herald Building – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This historic photograph of New York City: N.Y. Herald Building brings a moment of history to your wall. 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: N.Y. Herald Building
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The Herald Building stood at Broadway and 34th Street, on the site that gave Herald Square its name, and this print shows it at a time when the New York Herald was among the city's most widely read papers. The building was designed by the firm of Stanford White for publisher James Gordon Bennett Jr., and its Beaux-Arts facade and tower made it a landmark of the new commercial district rising around Midtown. The photographer's name, J.S. Johnston, appears on the card, and the date of about 1895 comes from an unverified caption, so the exact year may differ. Look at the street life and the building's ornament for a picture of how the city's newspaper row was changing in the 1890s.
| Created / published | c1895. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo copyrighted by J.S. Johnston. No. 283A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Newspapers...--NY H-; NY--NYC--Views--1894-5; NY--NYC; Newspapers; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142611 |
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