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[Home of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, 231 Madison Avenue, New York City] – Historic Reproduction

[Home of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, 231 Madison Avenue, New York City], [1913] — historic photograph
[Home of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, 231 Madison Avenue, New York City], [1913]. 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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[Home of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, 231 Madison Avenue, New York City] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Home of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, 231 Madison Avenue, New York City]

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The title names the house itself, a residence at 231 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, and places it in the household of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, the wife of the financier John Pierpont Morgan. Its date, 1913, falls in the year Morgan died in Rome, so the picture captures a Gilded Age mansion at a moment of family transition. The print comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs taken by Bain, a working press photographer in New York during the 1900s and 1910s, whose pictures document the city's streets, buildings, and public life of that era.

Created / published[1913]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsMorgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont),--1837-1913--Homes & haunts--New York (State)--New York. Dwellings--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,023 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169894

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