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Up Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. – Historic Print

Up Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y., c1905. — historic photograph
Up Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y., c1905.. 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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Worth Monument, a marble obelisk raised in Madison Square in 1857 to honor General William Jenkins Worth, anchors this view looking north, where Broadway and Fifth Avenue run together toward the square at right. By about 1905, the area around Madison Square had grown into a busy commercial and hotel district, and its avenues carried streetcars, wagons and foot traffic. The Detroit Publishing Company made the photograph on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, a large format that captured fine detail in the buildings and the crowded street. The result is a useful record of Manhattan's streetscape at the turn of the century.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesView north; includes Worth Monument; Madison Square at right. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018524. 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 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62034

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