Four photographs of Central Park

by Central Park

$800 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Vintage albumen prints mounted on card with gilt borders, captioned in pen on versos. 4to images approx. 8 x 6 in. . Some spotting to mounts, fading to one image, generally near fine. Item #257524 These albumen prints produced in the early 1880s show four vintage views of Central Park. Albumen photography was the dominant form of photography from 1855 to the start of the 20th century, and uses egg white to bind photochemical salts to paper,

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