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Lower end of mall, Central Park, New York – Vintage Wall Art

Lower end of mall, Central Park, New York, c1901. — historic print
Lower end of mall, Central Park, New York, c1901.. Historic print 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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Step back in time with Lower end of mall, Central Park, New York, a historic print 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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Lower end of mall, Central Park, New York

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The lower end of the Mall in Central Park is the formal, tree-lined promenade that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux laid out as part of the park's original design, a place built for strolling and seeing and being seen. This c1901 view comes from a photochrom print, a color process developed in Switzerland and widely used by the Detroit Photographic Company, which hand-colored its images from multiple stones. The company assembled albums like this one as a catalog of its views, so the picture was meant to show potential buyers what the firm could produce. Its saturated greens and soft tones give a sense of how the park looked at the turn of the twentieth century.

Created / publishedc1901.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color.
NotesIn album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53642. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
SubjectsParks.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,628 × 3,787 px · prints to 15 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220374

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