Horseback riding ring, Central park, New York – Vintage 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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Horseback riding ring, Central park, New York comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Horseback riding ring, Central park, New York
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Central Park's riding ring stood among the park's bridle paths, which Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux laid out in the 1850s to separate horseback riders and carriages from pedestrians. Riding in the park was a fashionable pastime for New Yorkers, and the bridle paths drew riders from the city's wealthy families and the stables that served them. This glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. The Bain News Service, a photo agency active in New York in the early twentieth century, made it, though the record does not give a date, and the title comes from unverified caption data.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 940 × 708 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4549 |
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