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Statuary Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City – Antique Wall Art

Statuary Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, c1907. — historic photograph
Statuary Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, c1907.. 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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Statuary Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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The photograph shows Statuary Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, a room that in the museum's early years held plaster casts of classical sculpture for students and visitors. The record dates it to about 1907 and credits the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its commercial views of American cities, landmarks and scenery. In this period the Met was still a young institution, and its galleries were meant to show the public the art of the ancient world. The image offers a glimpse of how the museum presented its collections to visitors in the early twentieth century.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotograph copyrighted by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 070018. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Sculpture; Museums.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,212 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149782

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