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[View of Broadway, New York City] – Antique Photo Print

[View of Broadway, New York City], [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
[View of Broadway, New York City], [no date recorded on shelflist card]. 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: [View of Broadway, New York City], 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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[View of Broadway, New York City]

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Broadway, the long diagonal avenue that runs the length of Manhattan, is the subject of this view, though the record does not say which stretch it shows or when it was made. The card associates the print with American Photo-Litho Co., a New York firm that worked in photolithography, a process that transferred photographic images onto printing plates for reproduction. Broadway began as a Native American trail and later became a colonial road, and by the late nineteenth century it was the city's busiest commercial and theater street, which made views of it popular with buyers.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: American Photo-Litho. Co.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,325 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109910

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