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On the Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, New York – Vintage Print

On the Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, c1897. — historic photograph
On the Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, c1897.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures On the Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, New York in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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On the Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, New York

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Few pictures in this gallery show the Brooklyn Bridge's pedestrian walkway as clearly as this stereograph, which captures strollers in the fashions of about 1897 and a policeman on foot among them. The bridge opened in 1883, and its elevated promenade was built to keep walkers apart from the carriages, wagons, and trolleys on the roadway below. Strohmeyer & Wyman, a New York firm that published stereo cards, issued views like this one for home viewers, so the card offers a glimpse of how the city's showpiece was presented to the public in the late 1890s.

Created / publishedc1897.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
Subjects63714C2-Z U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman, N.Y. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fashions--1897; Police (Walking); Bridges--NY; NY--NYC--Bridges; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 790 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129621

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