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Antique City View - New York City - 19th Ward Bank - Historic Wall Art Gift – Historic Reproduction

Antique City View - New York City - 19th Ward Bank - Historic Wall Art Gift, [between 1905 and 1915] — historic image
Antique City View - New York City - 19th Ward Bank - Historic Wall Art Gift, [between 1905 and 1915]. Historic image from the New York City collection.

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Where many New York views of this era focus on the skyline or harbor, this one is anchored by the 19th Ward Bank, a neighborhood institution named in the title. The print comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which issued views of American cities and landmarks in the years around 1905 to 1915 using the photochrom process, a color method that gave its pictures soft, painted-looking tones. Such prints were sold to travelers and households as keepsakes of a rapidly growing city, so this scene of a local bank captures both everyday commerce and the period's taste for color-rich street views.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
SubjectsDetroit Publishing
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70376

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