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Riding, Central Park – Historic Print

Riding, Central Park, n/a — historic photograph
Riding, Central Park, n/a. Historic photograph from the Central Park 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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Horseback riding on the bridle paths of Central Park is the subject here, a pastime that drew New Yorkers of many backgrounds to the park's winding trails. Olmsted and Vaux laid out the park with separate routes for riders, carriages and pedestrians, and the bridle paths became a fashionable place to be seen in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The picture is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers. The title comes from unverified notes the agency wrote on the negatives or caption cards, so the exact date and the riders are not recorded.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,798 × 4,153 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-10140

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