Cunard Bldg. – Antique Wall Art
(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: Cunard Bldg., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Cunard Bldg.
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The Cunard Building, the steamship line's New York headquarters at the lower end of Broadway, anchors this view, with pedestrians crossing the street below its classical facade. Irving Underhill, a New York photographer who registered his work for copyright, made the picture around 1921, the period when the building was new. The scene also reaches into the Stone Street Historic District, one of Manhattan's oldest surviving streets, whose cobbled lanes date to the Dutch colonial era and preserve a sense of the city's earliest layout.
| Created / published | c1921. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | J249000 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y.C. No. C 14728. |
| Subjects | Buildings--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Pedestrians--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Streets--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Stone Street Historic District (New York, N.Y.)--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,812 × 4,677 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220052 |
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