Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Keep an eye on the Times' corrections column which reads like smoke at the Vatican.... I have a feeling the museum didn't screw up. V On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > A.Lal writes: > "Are you sure this is a 1906 photo? Some of the motor vehicles look more > > modern than 1906." > > > - - - - - > > > Would the New York Times lie? But you are right. The cars look like 1910 to > 1920s models. The building was actually built in 1902. The Museum of the > City of New York dates the photo as 1906 and the NYT quotes that date. But > clearly the internal evidence of the photo argues against it. > > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >