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[Central Park, the tennis courts, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[Central Park, the tennis courts, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Central Park, the tennis courts, 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: [Central Park, the tennis courts, New York, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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This 8 by 10 inch glass negative shows the tennis courts in Central Park, one of the few views in the Detroit Publishing Company collection that records recreation inside the park rather than its landscapes or monuments. It dates to roughly 1900 to 1910, a period when lawn tennis had moved from private clubs into public parks and drew players from a broad range of city residents. The Detroit Publishing Company made large numbers of views of American cities and resorts for sale to the public, so the plate offers a useful glimpse of how leisure life in New York was documented at the time. The negative came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 398" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033451. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTennis. Parks.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66712

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