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[College of the City of New York, New York, N.Y.] – Vintage Print

[College of the City of New York, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[College of the City of New York, New York, N.Y.], [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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The College of the City of New York, a tuition-free public college founded in 1847 as the Free Academy, is the subject of this glass negative. The institution took its later name in 1907, when it was consolidating onto its new hilltop campus in Harlem, which is the period this view likely records. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its tinted views of American cities and landscapes, produced many such images for sale as souvenirs and postcards. The campus scene offers a useful glimpse of how the city's public college presented itself to visitors in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 9267" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500724. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUniversities & colleges. Educational facilities.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74976

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