Central Park, New York City, c. 1906, photographer unknown, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Tag: snow
Vintage landscape: a winter’s night
Sharp shivers thro’ the leafless bow’r. . . *
The east side of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., ca. 1920 – 1950, by Theodor Horydczak, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
*by Robert Burns, from “A Winter Night.”
Vintage landscape: snow day II
“In Central Park, New York,” ca. 1900, by Byron, Detroit Publishing Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Eight to fourteen inches of snow is also predicted for New York City today.
Vintage landscape: snow day
“Ice skaters on Rock Creek on the grounds of the National Zoological Park,” Washington, D.C., 1905, photographer unknown, via Smithsonian Institution Commons on flickr.
Schools are closed in Washington today, with 4″ to 8″ of snow predicted.
Vintage landscape: Lafayette Square
“The Belasco Theatre as seen from Lafayette Square, ca 1910,” via the D.C. Public Library Commons on flickr. The photographer is not noted.
The Washington, D.C., theater was called the Lafayette Square Opera House when it was built in 1895. It was renamed the Belasco in 1905. In 1962, it was demolished to make way for the U.S. Court of Claims building.
Come see the north wind’s masonry.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile. . .
To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
Built in an age, the mad wind’s night-work,
The frolic architecture of the snow.— Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “The Snow-Storm“
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