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The Elevated at One Hundred and Tenth Street, New York City – Historic Photo Reproduction

The Elevated at One Hundred and Tenth Street, New York City, c1900, — historic print
The Elevated at One Hundred and Tenth Street, New York City, c1900,. Historic print 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 rare historic print captures The Elevated at One Hundred and Tenth Street, New York City in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Elevated at One Hundred and Tenth Street, New York City

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The view follows the elevated railway as it crosses 110th Street in Manhattan, where iron trestles carried steam-hauled trains above the street traffic. Elevated lines like this one were built in the 1870s and 1880s to ease crowded surface routes, and they reshaped the avenues they ran over. The picture is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland that Detroit Publishing Co. used to make many views of American cities around 1900. Its colors were built up from several stone lithographic plates, which gives the scene its soft, painted look. The print comes from an album the company assembled as a catalog for its own office.

Created / publishedc1900,
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color.
NotesIn album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53619. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
SubjectsElevated railroads.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,426 × 1,148 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216748

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