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New York, flags on Broadway – Vintage Print

New York, flags on Broadway — antique lithograph
New York, flags on Broadway. Antique lithograph 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 antique lithograph of New York, flags on Broadway brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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New York, flags on Broadway

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Broadway hung with flags is what sets this sheet apart from other views of the avenue, with banners strung across the street and draped from the buildings. Joseph Pennell, an American illustrator and printmaker, made many lithographs of city streets in the early 1900s, turning crowds, architecture, and traffic into patterns of line and tone. An associated date of 1904 is noted, though it is unverified and no date appears on the sheet itself. Views like this one help show how New York's busiest thoroughfare looked around the turn of the twentieth century.

Medium1 print : lithograph.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsLithograph by Joseph Pennell. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Views--1904; Artists' works; NY--NYC--Streets; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,053 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122192

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