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[New York City street scenes - 5th Avenue] – Vintage Photo Print

[New York City street scenes - 5th Avenue], [1913 Dec. 18] — historic photograph
[New York City street scenes - 5th Avenue], [1913 Dec. 18]. 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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A window into the past: [New York City street scenes - 5th Avenue], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Taken on December 18, 1913, this view of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan shows the thoroughfare at a time when motorcars were becoming a common sight on its busy streets. The photograph belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news and street pictures that Bain, a working news photographer, supplied to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The catalog record tags automobiles as a subject, a reminder that the avenue, long lined with fashionable shops and the homes of wealthy families, was adjusting quickly to motor traffic. Pictures like this capture the gradual shift of city streets from horses and carriages toward the automobile era.

Created / published[1913 Dec. 18]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection.
SubjectsStreets--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. Automobiles--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,259 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184486

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