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Fifth Avenue at Fifty-first Street, New York City – Vintage Photo Print

Fifth Avenue at Fifty-first Street, New York City, c1900. — historic print
Fifth Avenue at Fifty-first Street, New York City, c1900.. Historic print 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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Fifth Avenue at Fifty-first Street, New York City comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Fifth Avenue at Fifty-first Street shows a stretch of the avenue that by about 1900 was lined with the town houses of New York's wealthy families. The firm behind it, the Detroit Photographic Company (later the Detroit Publishing Company), held the American rights to the photochrom process, a costly method of building color prints from several hand-registered photographic plates. This example was made for an album the company assembled as a catalog for its own office, and its number, 53618, helps place it among the firm's city views.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color.
NotesIn album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53618. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
SubjectsResidential streets. Dwellings.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,438 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216747

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