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The New York Times building – Vintage Wall Art

The New York Times building, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
The New York Times building, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving 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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This rare antique engraving captures The New York Times building in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Few buildings in New York were more closely tied to the city's public life than the home of *The New York Times*, shown here in a wood engraving. The paper occupied a building on Park Row, the newspaper row near City Hall, for decades, and its headquarters there drew crowds for election returns and breaking news. Wood engravings like this one were a standard way for illustrated papers and magazines to reproduce architecture and street scenes before halftone photography became common in the 1890s. The record does not give a date, but the engraved view itself is a useful record of the downtown newspaper district.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Newspapers.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,335 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148598

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