Hotel Astor – 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.)
Description
Hotel Astor comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hotel Astor
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The Hotel Astor stood on Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets in Midtown Manhattan, at the heart of the theater district that later became Times Square. The hotel opened in 1904 and became a favorite meeting place for theatergoers, politicians and society figures, with its restaurants and ballroom drawing crowds through the early twentieth century. This negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, whose news photographs were made by the Bain News Service. The title is taken from caption information the service recorded, which has not been independently verified, and the picture's exact date is not given in the record.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,841 × 3,265 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-23317 |
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