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Hotel Plaza [i.e. Plaza Hotel], New York, N.Y. – Historic Reproduction

Hotel Plaza [i.e. Plaza Hotel], New York, N.Y., [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Hotel Plaza [i.e. Plaza Hotel], New York, N.Y., [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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Hotel Plaza [i.e. Plaza Hotel], New York, N.Y.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Hotel Plaza [i.e. Plaza Hotel], New York, N.Y.

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Facing Grand Army Plaza, where Fifth Avenue meets Central Park, the Plaza Hotel was one of the best-known landmarks of early twentieth-century New York. It opened in 1907, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh in a French Renaissance style. This 8 by 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented American cities and scenery in those years, and it is dated to roughly 1910 to 1920. The negative reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado, preserving a view of the hotel and its street during a period when grand hotels were central to the city's social life.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 072139. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHotels. Streets.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73254

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