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The Hebrew Temple Emanu-el, corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-Third Street, New York City – Antique Photo Print

The Hebrew Temple Emanu-el, corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-Third Street, New York City, 1868 — antique engraving
The Hebrew Temple Emanu-el, corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-Third Street, New York City, 1868. Antique engraving 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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Step back in time with The Hebrew Temple Emanu-el, corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-Third Street, New York City, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Hebrew Temple Emanu-el, corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-Third Street, New York City

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Few buildings on Fifth Avenue in 1868 drew as much notice as the new Temple Emanu-El at Forty-Third Street, the house of worship of one of the city's largest Jewish congregations. This wood engraving reproduces a photograph by Rockwood and appeared in *Harper's Weekly* on November 14, 1868, on page 729. Because newspapers and magazines could not yet print photographs directly, engravers like this one carved photographic views into blocks of wood so they could be printed alongside the text. The result shows the temple's large façade as the uptown avenue was filling with new houses and churches.

Created / published1868
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesWood engraving after photograph by Rockwood. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1868 Nov. 14, p. 729. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Synagogues; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,015 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148081

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