Fifth Avenue, New York--the world's greatest shopping street--Travel by train – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Fifth Avenue, New York--the world's greatest shopping street--Travel by train
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Fifth Avenue is billed here as "the world's greatest shopping street," with the Empire State Building, completed in 1931 and then the tallest building in the world, rising above it. Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co. of Long Island City, New York, printed this color halftone in 1932, when railroads were competing hard for passengers during the Great Depression. The poster pairs a famous shopping district with a famous skyline to make a rail trip to the city look like an easy day out, a common approach in American travel posters of the 1930s.
| Created / published | Long Island City, N.Y.: Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co., 1932. |
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| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Posters American 1930-1940.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Subjects | Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.)--1930-1940. Commercial streets--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.)--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 8,114 × 12,301 px · prints to 27 × 41 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09505_FifthAvenueNewYorktheworldsgre |
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