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New York City - Central Park: The Ramble – Historic Print

New York City - Central Park: The Ramble, c1905 June 15. — historic photograph
New York City - Central Park: The Ramble, c1905 June 15.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures New York City - Central Park: The Ramble in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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New York City - Central Park: The Ramble

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Most views of Central Park show its open meadows or formal promenades, but this one looks into The Ramble, the deliberately wild woodland on the park's southern half. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux laid out the area in the 1860s as a tangle of winding footpaths, rock outcrops, and dense plantings, meant to give walkers the feeling of being far from the city. By the time this photograph was taken around 1905, the Ramble had become a favorite spot for birdwatchers and for visitors seeking shade and quiet. The record's note about caves refers to the rocky, shadowed hollows that give the landscape much of its character.

Created / publishedc1905 June 15.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesH63951 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Parks; Caves.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,214 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147235

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