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University Club, New York – Antique Wall Art

University Club, New York, c1905. — historic photograph
University Club, New York, c1905.. 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: University Club, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The University Club stood on Fifth Avenue at West 54th Street when this glass negative was made around 1905, and its clubhouse was built to look as scholarly as its members. The club, founded for men with college degrees, hired the firm McKim, Mead & White, whose Italian Renaissance design gave the building the look of a Florentine palazzo. The Detroit Publishing Company, which recorded American cities and landmarks in the early twentieth century, captured the building on an 8 by 10 inch plate, a large format that preserved fine architectural detail.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 018534. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsUniversity Club (New York, N.Y.) Clubs. Clubhouses.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62044

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