Entrance to Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Entrance to Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Entrance to Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Greenwood Cemetery, founded in 1838 on rolling hills at the edge of what was then the city of Brooklyn, was one of the first large rural cemeteries in the country. Its entrance gateway was meant to signal that the grounds were both a burial place and a park, a combination that drew crowds of nineteenth-century visitors who came to stroll among the monuments and wooded paths. This view dates to about 1906 and was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American cities, landmarks and scenery for a national audience of travelers and armchair tourists in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Copyright by Detroit Publishing Co. No. 019290. |
| Subjects | Cemeteries--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910. Gates--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,425 × 1,132 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215980 |
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