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14th Street with Union Square and Washington Monument

Silas a Holmesabout 1855

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

A group of schoolboys gathered around the then-new monument of George Washington in Union Square looks directly at Silas A. Holmes's camera. Though this image depicts children, the monument was more frequently a rendezvous point for unemployed actors in the 1850s and 1860s. In the 1870s the area became the heart of the commercial entertainment district and then was graced with a newly landscaped green park. Monument House in the background, a home newly converted into a hotel, demonstrates that the neighboring private houses in this formerly fashionable district were also giving way to commercial establishments.

Details

  • Title: 14th Street with Union Square and Washington Monument
  • Creator: Silas A. Holmes
  • Date Created: about 1855
  • Physical Dimensions: 31.1 × 40.3 cm (12 1/4 × 15 7/8 in.)
  • Type: Print
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Salted paper print
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 84.XM.351.12
  • Culture: American
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  • Creator Display Name: Attributed to Silas A. Holmes (American, 1820 - 1886)
  • Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)

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