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[Skating in Central Park, New York, N.Y.] – Antique Print

[Skating in Central Park, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Skating in Central Park, 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Skating in Central Park, New York, N.Y.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Skaters glide across the frozen water of Central Park in this glass-plate negative, one of the many scenes the Detroit Publishing Company made of the city's parks in the early 1900s. The company, based in Detroit, sold views like this to railroads, publishers and tourist trade, and its photographers often traveled with heavy large-format cameras to capture ordinary leisure in vivid detail. Winter skating on the park's lakes and ponds was a popular pastime for New Yorkers of every background, and the image offers a glimpse of that shared public life. The 8 by 10 inch plate preserves fine tonal detail that rewards close looking.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 62" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033383. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. Ice skating. Lakes & ponds.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66668

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