[Design proposal for alterations to a St. James Bar Restaurant, , W. 181st St. and Broadway (New York City). Elevation] – Vintage Print
![[Design proposal for alterations to a St. James Bar Restaurant, , W. 181st St. and Broadway (New York City). Elevation], [1945 or 1946] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/50/50b85c9bec11-L.webp)
(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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[Design proposal for alterations to a St. James Bar Restaurant, , W. 181st St. and Broadway (New York City). Elevation] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Design proposal for alterations to a St. James Bar Restaurant, , W. 181st St. and Broadway (New York City). Elevation]
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The St. James Bar Restaurant stood at West 181st Street and Broadway, on the commercial stretch of Washington Heights in northern Manhattan. This elevation proposes changes to its street front, drawn around 1945 or 1946, just after the end of World War II, when many New York businesses updated their storefronts to attract returning servicemen and a booming postwar public. The sheet was made as a diazo print, a cheap blueprint-style copy, and someone added graphite and gouache color by hand to show the proposed finishes. That painted color, rather than the line work alone, is what lets a viewer picture how the building was meant to look on the street.
| Created / published | [1945 or 1946] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on diazo print : graphite and gouache, color. |
| Genre | Elevations 1940-1950.Drawings Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Gift, Tjark Reiss, 1988 (DLC/PP-1989:91.5) |
| Subjects | Restaurants--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950. Facades--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,428 × 1,147 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219326 |
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