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[Pell Street, Chinatown, New York, N.Y.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Pell Street, Chinatown, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Pell Street, Chinatown, 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Pell Street, Chinatown, New York, N.Y.]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Pell Street, Chinatown, New York, N.Y.]

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Pell Street, one of the narrow streets at the heart of Manhattan's Chinatown, appears here as a glass-plate negative made in the years just after 1900. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its color and black-and-white views of American places, produced this type of image for sale to travelers and collectors. By the early 1900s Chinatown had grown into a dense cluster of Chinese merchants, laundries, and tenements, and it drew curious visitors and reporters who often wrote about its crowded sidewalks and unfamiliar shopfronts.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. H 170" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036481. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Ethnic neighborhoods.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan797 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67957

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