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New York City - Central Park: The Ramble – Vintage Print

New York City - Central Park: The Ramble, c1905 June 15. — historic photograph
New York City - Central Park: The Ramble, c1905 June 15.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures New York City - Central Park: The Ramble in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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New York City - Central Park: The Ramble

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The Ramble is the wooded, winding section of Central Park that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux shaped as a deliberately natural landscape, with twisting footpaths, rock outcrops, and dense planting meant to make visitors feel far from the city. The caption card for this c1905 print lists "Caves" among its subject tags, pointing to the rocky hollows and shaded grottoes that give the area its character. Turn-of-the-century views like this one show how the park's picturesque design had matured by then, with trees grown to full height and the paths well used by walkers and birdwatchers. The record itself is based on an older caption card, so its details are worth checking against other sources.

Created / publishedc1905 June 15.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesH63953 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Parks; Caves.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,214 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147236

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