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[Fifth Avenue from Thirty-third Street, New York, N.Y.] – Antique Photo Print

[Fifth Avenue from Thirty-third Street, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Fifth Avenue from Thirty-third Street, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1920]. 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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[Fifth Avenue from Thirty-third Street, New York, N.Y.]

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Fifth Avenue at Thirty-third Street was one of the busier stretches of Manhattan in the early 1900s, when the avenue was becoming a center of hotels, shops, and commercial buildings. This 8 x 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers recorded American cities, towns, and landscapes for sale as postcards and travel views. The company's negatives show how the street looked during the years when motor traffic was still sharing the road with horse-drawn carriages and streetcars. The negative was later given to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 5152 dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036549. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68021

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