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Riverside Drive, New York City – Antique Wall Art

Riverside Drive, New York City, c1916 July 25. — historic photograph
Riverside Drive, New York City, c1916 July 25.. 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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Riverside Drive, New York City

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Riverside Drive, the curving boulevard that follows the Hudson along Manhattan's West Side, is the subject of this July 1916 view. The street grew out of late nineteenth-century plans for a riverside park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, meant to give the Upper West Side a leafy promenade above the water. Because the picture was submitted for copyright, it records how the avenue looked to the city at a time when new apartment buildings and automobiles were changing its character.

Created / publishedc1916 July 25.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsJ217511 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Views--1916; NY--NYC--Streets--Riverside Drive--1916; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,213 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147232

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