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[Central Park, New York City, bird's-eye view] – Historic Map Reproduction

[Central Park, New York City, bird's-eye view], c1929. — historic photograph
[Central Park, New York City, bird's-eye view], c1929.. 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 [Central Park, New York City, bird's-eye view]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Central Park, laid out in the 1850s by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is seen here from above, a vantage that shows how its winding paths, lawns and reservoirs sat in the middle of a grid of Manhattan streets. Underwood & Underwood, the New York firm that made and copyrighted this view around 1929, was known for stereographs and press photographs, and aerial shots like this one were then a novelty that let viewers grasp the park's scale at a glance. By the late 1920s the park was a major public refuge for a rapidly growing city, and the image records a landscape that had already become a defining feature of New York.

Created / publishedc1929.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreCityscape photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesJ01807 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, New York City.
SubjectsParks--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,271 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178469

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