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Aerial view of Riverside Drive and Henry Hudson Parkway in New York / Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc. – Vintage Wall Art

Aerial view of Riverside Drive and Henry Hudson Parkway in New York / Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc., [between 1937 and 1946] — historic photograph
Aerial view of Riverside Drive and Henry Hudson Parkway in New York / Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc., [between 1937 and 1946]. 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 views show the Hudson shoreline on Manhattan's West Side as clearly as this aerial survey, which captures the Henry Hudson Parkway hugging the river beside Riverside Drive, the tree-lined boulevard that runs along the bluff above it. The parkway, a limited-access road built in the late 1930s, was part of a wave of New York highways designed to move cars quickly along the city's edges. Fairchild Aerial Surveys, a leading mapping firm of the period, made the photograph from the air, and its overhead angle shows how the road, the park and the river fit together as one corridor.

Created / published[between 1937 and 1946]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial photographs 1930-1950.Photographic prints 1930-1950.
NotesFarm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress). Office for Emergency Management. No. 41-2765.
SubjectsExpress highways--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950. Streets--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-195045

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