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Detroit Photographic Co., 218 Fifth Avenue, New York,Twenty-sixth Street front – Vintage Photo Print

Detroit Photographic Co., 218 Fifth Avenue, New York,Twenty-sixth Street front, [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Detroit Photographic Co., 218 Fifth Avenue, New York,Twenty-sixth Street front, [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Detroit Photographic Co., 218 Fifth Avenue, New York,Twenty-sixth Street front

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The view shows the Twenty-sixth Street side of the Detroit Photographic Company's New York studio at 218 Fifth Avenue, a building that served as the firm's eastern base. The company, which later adopted the name Detroit Publishing Company, was known for its large-format views of American cities, landscapes and resorts, and for licensing the photochrom process, a Swiss method for producing color prints from photographs. This glass negative, numbered 32607 and dated somewhere between 1900 and 1910, was part of that output. Its street-level framing gives a useful record of the commercial storefronts and building styles of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue district in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Notes572" and "32607" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 32607
SubjectsDetroit Publishing Co. Photographic studios.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70508

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