Public Library, 42nd St., New York City – Historic 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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A window into the past: Public Library, 42nd St., New York City, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Public Library, 42nd St., New York City
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Few buildings in New York are as recognizable as the main branch of the Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, shown here in a view from about 1933. Opened in 1911 to designs by Carrère and Hastings, the Beaux-Arts marble building replaced the old Croton Reservoir on the site, and its flanking stone lions have become city icons. The print carries the copyright notice of Irving Underhill, Inc., a firm that issued commercial city views, and it shows the library during the Depression years, when it remained a busy public resource.
| Created / published | c1933. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint copyrighted by Irving Underhill, Inc. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Streets--42nd; Photog. I.; NY--NYC--NYPL; Libraries; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,212 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144602 |
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