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[Opening of the Astor market, New York City, 1915] – Historic Print

[Opening of the Astor market, New York City, 1915], [1915] — historic photograph
[Opening of the Astor market, New York City, 1915], [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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This rare historic photograph captures [Opening of the Astor market, New York City, 1915] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Opening of the Astor market, New York City, 1915]

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This 1915 photograph records the opening of the Astor Market in New York City, a public market where the subject of the picture is flowers as much as the building. Its record places it in the George Grantham Bain Collection, the press photographs produced by the Bain News Service during the 1910s, when newspapers relied on such images to report civic events. Opening-day pictures like this one usually show officials, vendors and invited guests posed among the stalls, offering a snapshot of how the city presented its new public markets to residents. The image is a useful window onto the period's interest in bringing fresh produce and cut flowers directly to urban shoppers.

Created / published[1915]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910-1920.Group portraits 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection.
SubjectsFlowers--1910-1920. Markets--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,285 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183644

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