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The Vanderbilt Hotel, New York – Historic Print

The Vanderbilt Hotel, New York, c[between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
The Vanderbilt Hotel, New York, c[between 1910 and 1920]. 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 Vanderbilt Hotel, New York, 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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The Vanderbilt Hotel, New York

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Few hotels of the period were as closely tied to the Manhattan rail corridor as the Vanderbilt, which stood on Park Avenue at East 34th Street, near Grand Central Terminal. This view comes from a large 8 by 10 inch glass negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sold views of American cities and scenic places as photochromes and postcards in the early twentieth century. Its exact date is uncertain, but the record places it somewhere between 1910 and 1920, a period when the avenue was filling with new office buildings and luxury hotels. The large plate would have captured fine street detail, which makes it useful for studying how the block looked before later redevelopment.

Created / publishedc[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 9263" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073003. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Streets.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan791 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73939

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