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[Bird's-eye view of Riverside Drive from 72nd St., New York City] – Historic Map Reproduction

[Bird's-eye view of Riverside Drive from 72nd St., New York City], c1911 July 7. — historic photograph
[Bird's-eye view of Riverside Drive from 72nd St., New York City], c1911 July 7.. 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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From a high vantage point at 72nd Street, this view looks down the length of Riverside Drive, the curving boulevard that runs along the Hudson on Manhattan's West Side. The drive and the park beside it were laid out in the 1870s and 1880s under a plan associated with Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, and by the 1910s the avenue had become a fashionable address for residents and a place to ride and walk. The catalog record credits the photographer Irving Underhill and a U.S. copyright registration, though its date of about 1911 is marked as unverified. The picture is useful for seeing how the new street fit its wooded bluff above the river.

Created / publishedc1911 July 7.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesJ157368 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No. c-8716. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,216 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146997

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