[New York (City) - house at 55 Irving Place where O. Henry lived after 1898] – Vintage Wall Art
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(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 rare historic photograph captures [New York (City) - house at 55 Irving Place where O. Henry lived after 1898] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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This photograph shows the brownstone at 55 Irving Place in Manhattan, the home where the writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) lived in the years after he moved to New York. Known for short stories with surprise endings, such as "The Gift of the Magi," he drew on the city's streets, boarding houses, and working people, and he wrote many of his best-known pieces during his New York years. The picture was made around 1945, so it captures the building some three decades after the writer's time there, when the Gramercy Park neighborhood had settled into the quieter, older character it still keeps.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | ca. 1945. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,125 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-121003 |
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