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Mulberry Street, New York City – Historic Photograph Print

Mulberry Street, New York City, [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
Mulberry Street, New York City, [ca. 1900]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography 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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Step back in time with Mulberry Street, New York City, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Mulberry Street, in lower Manhattan, was the heart of the city's Italian immigrant community around 1900, and this color photochrom shows the street's crowded commerce at close range. Photochrom was a costly process that hand-colored and layered tinted lithographic plates over a photographic base, and the Detroit Photographic Company used it to produce views of American cities and scenery for sale. The subjects listed in the record, peddlers and markets, point to the street's open-air trade, which drew customers from the surrounding tenements. The print also served as a catalog item in the company's own office, so it reflects what the firm chose to sell as much as what the street looked like.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color.
NotesIn album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. For black-and-white copy photo from very similar view, use negative D401-12683. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53641. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
SubjectsPeddlers. Streets. Markets. Ethnic neighborhoods. Mulberry Street (New York, N.Y.)United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,345 × 4,294 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218500

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