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Three-quarter studio portrait of Calvert Vaux, facing front, location unknown, undated

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Biographical: Vaux

GUSN

GUSN-196237

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Description

Calvert Vaux rests his left arm on the back of a chair in this studio portrait.

Details

Descriptive Terms

studio portraits
architects
landscape architects
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 001297
AccessID 2025
Other identifier HNEDID-001297

Physical Description

1 photographic print : black-and-white

Collection Code

PC004

Collection Name

Personal photographic collection

Reference Code

PC004.01.V.0700.001

Places

Central Park (Manhattan, New York City, New York state) [park]

Record Details

Material Type

photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)

Other People

Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

Subjects

Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Biographical: Vaux

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