Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway & 39th St., 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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This historic photograph of Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway & 39th St., New York City brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway & 39th St., New York City
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The Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street was the company's home for most of its early history, and this 1912 view shows the Broadway face of the building in the city's busiest theater district. The house opened in 1883 and was designed by the architect J. Cleveland Cady, whose work reflected the period's taste for grand, ornamented public halls. The photograph was copyrighted in November 1912 by Irving Underhill, a New York photographer whose street and building views document the city in the early twentieth century. The Metropolitan Opera later moved uptown to Lincoln Center, so this picture records a building that is no longer part of the city's opera life.
| Created / published | c1912 Nov. 30. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Copyright 30 Nov. 1912 by Irving Underhill, N.Y. Registration no. J175980. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Geogr.; N.Y. -- N.Y.C.--Streets; Photog. I; Opera-- Houses; N.Y. -- N.Y.C.--Bldgs.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,225 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138824 |
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