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[The Hippodrome, New York, N.Y.] / photo by F.H. Tucker, South Orange, N.J. – Vintage Photo Print

[The Hippodrome, New York, N.Y.] / photo by F.H. Tucker, South Orange, N.J., c1910. — historic photograph
[The Hippodrome, New York, N.Y.] / photo by F.H. Tucker, South Orange, N.J., c1910.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [The Hippodrome, New York, N.Y.] / photo by F.H. Tucker, South Orange, N.J.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[The Hippodrome, New York, N.Y.] / photo by F.H. Tucker, South Orange, N.J.

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Sixth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets, in Midtown Manhattan, is where this view of the Hippodrome stands, and the building was among the largest entertainment venues in the city when this photograph was made around 1910. Thompson and Dundy, the showmen behind Luna Park at Coney Island, opened it in 1905 as a vast house for spectacles, with a stage that could be flooded for water pageants and seating for thousands. The print was made by F.H. Tucker of South Orange, New Jersey, and its copyright deposit suggests it was registered as a published view of the city, a common route for commercial street and theater photographs of the period.

Created / publishedc1910.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreCityscape photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesJ140687 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsTheaters--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,294 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213612

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