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Description
Album of photographs of Fort Tryon Park before the construction of The Cloisters, construction of the park roads, sample walls, model of the park, the Hudson River, the C.K.G. Billings' estate, etc. Photos all have I.D. numbers and most views are fully identified below each photo. Photographers are listed on each page with the date. Photos date from 1913-1933 and are not mounted in chronological order; Cover title; label on the cover of the album: 'Fort Tryon Park (Project), New York City, for John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Edward G. Carrillo, Chief Engineer'. This album is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
PID
nyhs:71503
NYHS Identifier
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: N.Y.). Cloisters Library and Archives - Cloisters Archives collection no.21
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Genre
Owning Institution
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Type
Subject (Topical)
Subject (Name)
Subject (Geographic)
Date Created
1913 to 1933
Extent
[46] p. : ill. ; 33 x 40 cm
