Saturday afternoon in Central Park, N.Y. – Historic Print
(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 Saturday afternoon in Central Park, N.Y.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Saturday afternoon in Central Park, N.Y.
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Model sailboats are the detail that sets this card apart, with children gathered at the water's edge while their toy yachts drift across it. Model yachts were often sailed on the Conservatory Water, a formal basin near Fifth Avenue, which was a popular Saturday pastime by 1900. Central Park, laid out from 1858 under Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, was designed as a refuge for city families, and scenes like this one show how they used it. The stereograph was published in St. Paul, Minnesota, by T.W. Ingersoll, so it was sold far from the city it shows.
| Created / published | St. Paul, Minn. : T.W. Ingersoll, publisher, c1900. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Stereographs 1900.Photographs 1900. |
| Notes | No. F112. |
| Subjects | Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--1900. Children--New York (State)--New York--1900. Model sailboats--New York (State)--New York--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 727 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165410 |
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