In horseback riding ring, Central Park, New York – Antique 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.)
Description
A window into the past: In horseback riding ring, Central Park, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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In horseback riding ring, Central Park, New York
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A riding ring inside Central Park sets this view apart from the park's many scenes of carriages and strollers. Central Park's designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, built a separate bridle path into the original 1858 plan, and by the late 1800s horseback riding there was a fashionable pastime for New Yorkers of means. The picture is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the Bain News Service's archive of news photographs made mostly in the early 1900s. The record gives no date, and its title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact moment is uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 942 × 713 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4546 |
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