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[Easter morning on Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Print

[Easter morning on Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Easter morning on Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.], [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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Fifth Avenue's Easter parade, with St. Patrick's Cathedral rising behind the crowd, anchors this view of New York on a holiday morning. Churchgoers and strollers in their finest clothes filled the avenue in the years around 1900, when turning out in new spring outfits after Sunday services was a well-established city custom. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made many views of American cities for sale to travelers and publishers, recorded scenes like this on large 8 by 10 inch glass negatives. The plates captured fine detail in the hats, coats, and street life, and the cathedral's Gothic spires give the scene a sense of place.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Includes St. Patrick's Cathedral. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033387. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCrowds. Easter. City & town life.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66672

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