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Presbyerian [i.e., Presbyterian] Building, New York, N.Y. – Vintage Photo Print

Presbyerian [i.e., Presbyterian] Building, New York, N.Y., [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
Presbyerian [i.e., Presbyterian] Building, New York, N.Y., [between 1905 and 1915]. 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 buildings in this Detroit Publishing Company set are as directly tied to a religious institution as this one. The Presbyterian Building was a commercial structure in Manhattan that housed the church's publishing and administrative work, so its business and its mission shared one address. Detroit Publishing Company photographers worked across the country between about 1890 and the 1920s, documenting cities as they were rebuilt around new office blocks and street-level shops. The glass negative, made in the years before 1915, captures that transition, when New York's streets were filling with taller commercial buildings. Its survival as a large 8 by 10 inch plate gives a sharp record of the street's architecture at that moment.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 043534. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCommercial facilities.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan795 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70393

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