Vendor of Christmas toys, 6th Ave., 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Vendor of Christmas toys, 6th Ave., New York, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Vendor of Christmas toys, 6th Ave., New York
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A street vendor on Sixth Avenue in New York displays Christmas toys, a sight that once lined the city's sidewalks each December. The picture is a glass negative in the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, made by the Bain News Service, a commercial agency that supplied newspapers with photographs in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified notes on the negatives or caption cards, so the exact day is unknown. Even so, the scene shows how holiday commerce spilled onto a busy Manhattan avenue in that era.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,742 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4278 |
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