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[New York (City)--Fifth Avenue at Fifty-First Street] – Vintage Wall Art

[New York (City)--Fifth Avenue at Fifty-First Street], c1900. — historic print
[New York (City)--Fifth Avenue at Fifty-First Street], c1900.. Historic print 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: [New York (City)--Fifth Avenue at Fifty-First Street], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[New York (City)--Fifth Avenue at Fifty-First Street]

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Fifth Avenue at Fifty-First Street lies a short walk from St. Patrick's Cathedral, which occupies the blocks between Fiftieth and Fifty-First Streets. Around 1900, this stretch was becoming one of the city's most fashionable addresses, lined with shops, clubs, and grand residences. The print is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland that the Detroit Publishing Company used to turn photographs into tinted images, which were sold widely as souvenirs of American cities.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photomechanical print : color.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by Detroit Photo Company. #53618. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: New York City--Streets; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,184 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126881

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