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[Riverside Drive and Grant's Tomb, New York, N.Y.] – Antique Print

[Riverside Drive and Grant's Tomb, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Riverside Drive and Grant's Tomb, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Grant's Tomb, the mausoleum of President Ulysses S. Grant, anchors this view of Riverside Drive, where the broad parkway runs along the Hudson River on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The tomb was dedicated in 1897 and was still fairly new when this glass-plate negative was made between 1900 and 1910, part of the Detroit Publishing Company's large effort to document American places for color and black-and-white postcards and travel books. The picture shows how the drive and its monument were meant to look as a showpiece of the city's northern park system.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 1796" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033678. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885--Tomb. Tombs & sepulchral monuments. Parks. Streets.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66890

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