Kew Gardens LI, New York, 1936 – Antique Photo 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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A window into the past: Kew Gardens LI, New York, 1936, preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Kew Gardens, west to east, L.I., N.Y.
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Kew Gardens LI, New York, 1936
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Kew Gardens, in the borough of Queens, was a residential neighborhood in 1936 that had grown up over the previous quarter century around the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line. Its developers named the district after the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in England and marketed it as a garden community of houses for commuters working in Manhattan. The Depression had slowed building across the city, so shops along Lefferts Boulevard and Queens Boulevard served a community that depended on trains and streetcars for daily travel. Queens had joined New York City in 1898, and by the mid-1930s residents were watching the borough's suburban character change as new roads and apartment buildings arrived.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Creator | underhill, irving, bolmer, daniel g. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New York |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,185 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Kew Gardens, west to east, L.I., N.Y. |
| Reference | NY 1936 Kew Gardens LI |
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