Easter flowers for sale in Union Square, New York – Antique Print
(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 photograph captures Easter flowers for sale in Union Square, New York in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Easter flowers for sale in Union Square, New York
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Union Square in Manhattan, a plaza at the crossroads of Broadway and Fourth Avenue, was a common place for street vendors and flower sellers, and this 1908 glass negative records stalls of Easter blossoms set out for the holiday crowds. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, the working archive of the Bain News Service, a photo agency that sold pictures of daily news and city life to newspapers. Its title comes from the agency's own caption cards and has not been independently verified, so the exact stall and vendors are best read as a general view of the Easter trade. Such scenes show how seasonal goods moved through the streets of early twentieth-century New York.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,810 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1528 |
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