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[Fifth Avenue, south from Thirty-sixth Street, New York, N.Y.] – Antique Photo Print

[Fifth Avenue, south from Thirty-sixth Street, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Fifth Avenue, south from Thirty-sixth Street, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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A window into the past: [Fifth Avenue, south from Thirty-sixth Street, New York, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Fifth Avenue, south from Thirty-sixth Street, New York, N.Y.]

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A view looking south down Fifth Avenue from Thirty-sixth Street, the photographer's camera set among the street's commercial frontages in the years before 1915. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative, sold views of American cities and landscapes in the early twentieth century, and its street scenes often record how busy shopping and business districts looked before automobiles dominated them. Fifth Avenue in this stretch was changing as retail and commercial uses expanded northward, so the plate captures a moment of transition in the city's streetscape. The negative came to the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 9264" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500699. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74955

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