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Newspaper Row, New York – Antique Wall Art

Newspaper Row, New York, c1900. — historic photograph
Newspaper Row, New York, c1900.. 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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Park Row, near City Hall Park at the foot of Manhattan, was once the center of New York's newspaper trade, and this view captures the cluster of papers and office buildings that gave the street its name. Detroit Publishing Company made it around 1900 as one of its large-format views of American cities, and the surviving glass negatives record the street at a time when newspapers were among the city's most visible businesses. The pair of negatives, nearly identical, reflects the company's practice of making duplicates for sale, and the image is useful for seeing how the district looked before the skyline grew much taller.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 11 x 20 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesNegatives are close variants. Dup 572" on negative (B). "Copyright 1900 by Detroit Photographic Co." and "0572" on negative (A). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0572. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsNewspaper industry. Office buildings.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 593 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-80248

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