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[Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, New York, N.Y.] – Vintage Print

[Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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: [Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, New York, N.Y.], 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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[Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, New York, N.Y.]

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The memorial stands near the Fifth Avenue edge of Central Park at about 70th Street, a monument to Richard Morris Hunt, the architect who did more than anyone to bring French Beaux-Arts training and design to American building. Hunt died in 1895, and the memorial was raised in his honor. This dry plate negative, made between 1900 and 1910 by the Detroit Publishing Company, records the monument within a few years of its installation, when the Fifth Avenue mansions and museums it helped inspire were rising around it. Hunt's own work, including Biltmore House in Asheville and the Metropolitan Museum's facade, shows the Gilded Age taste the memorial commemorates.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033076. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHunt, Richard Morris,--1828-1895--Monuments. Monuments & memorials. Sculpture.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66418

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