The Bowery, New York City – Historic Print
(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 print of The Bowery, New York City. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Bowery, New York City
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This view of the Bowery, the lower Manhattan street whose name was long linked with theaters, cheap lodgings, and saloons, is distinguished by the elevated railway tracks running overhead, which carried passengers above the crowded commercial blocks below. The image is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland that used lithographic stones to reproduce photographs in color, and the Detroit Publishing Company adopted it widely in the United States around 1900. The print comes from an album the company assembled as a catalog for its own office, so it reflects the kind of city scene the firm sold to buyers across the country.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53621. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955. |
| Subjects | Streets. Elevated railroads. Commercial facilities. City & town life.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 713 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-79014 |
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