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Washington Irving's home, [New York, New York] – Antique Print

Washington Irving's home, [New York, New York], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
Washington Irving's home, [New York, New York], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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A window into the past: Washington Irving's home, [New York, New York], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Washington Irving's home, [New York, New York]

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This view centers on the Irving Place and East Seventeenth Street corner in Manhattan, where the record places a home associated with Washington Irving, the author of "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The street that bears his name honors a writer who helped give New York a literary identity in the early 1800s, though he spent his final years at Sunnyside, his estate on the Hudson. The picture comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American cities and landscapes in the decades around 1900, and this glass negative likely dates from between 1900 and 1915. Its record also shows the building and street as they stood in those years, when the neighborhood was changing rapidly.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesPart of title from jacket. At Irving Place and East Seventeenth Street. 40" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 040391. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsIrving, Washington,--1783-1859--Homes & haunts. Dwellings. Streets.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 753 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69438

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