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The Lake, Central Park, New York – Historic Print

The Lake, Central Park, New York, c1905. — historic photograph
The Lake, Central Park, New York, c1905.. 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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A window into the past: The Lake, Central Park, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Carriages are the focus of this view of The Lake in Central Park, a body of water in the park's northern woods, dated around 1905. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's landscape plan, begun in the late 1850s, was meant to give New Yorkers a retreat from the crowded city, and by the early 1900s the park's lakes and shaded paths drew riders and strollers who came to see and be seen. The picture is a glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers recorded American cities and scenery in the decades around 1900. Its record notes a gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949, a reminder of how these views traveled far from New York.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes2767 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018539. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLakes & ponds. Parks. Carriages & coaches.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62049

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