The Bowery, New York City – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The Bowery, New York City. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Bowery, New York City
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The Bowery, one of Manhattan's oldest commercial streets, is seen here with elevated railway tracks running overhead, their iron supports throwing shadows across the sidewalks below. At the turn of the twentieth century the street was crowded with shops, saloons, and theaters, and the trains above added to its noise and bustle. The view was produced by the photochrom process, a method of making color prints from photographs that the Detroit Publishing Company used for its American city and landscape views. The saturated colors are typical of that process.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53621. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955. |
| Subjects | Streets. Elevated railroads. Commercial facilities. City & town life.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,143 × 2,288 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222910 |
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