Battery Park, New York City – 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.)
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A window into the past: Battery Park, New York City, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Battery Park, New York City
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Battery Park sits at the southern tip of Manhattan, where the island's land runs out to the harbor, and this 1935 view captures it at the edge of the Upper Bay. The park has roots going back to the 1700s, when the ground was a fort and then a waterfront promenade, and by the 1930s it had become a green stretch for workers, ferry commuters and tourists heading to the Statue of Liberty. The photograph was made by the Roege studio of New York, a commercial firm whose work was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, which is why the print carries that record. Its clean composition makes it a useful picture of the park as it looked between the wars.
| Created / published | c1935 Feb. 28. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | J16258 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by Roege, N.Y., no. 87. |
| Subjects | Parks--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Battery Park (New York, N.Y.)--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159935 |
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