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[New York City: Plaza Hotel. Horse-drawn and electric street cars in foregrd.] – Antique Photo Print

[New York City: Plaza Hotel. Horse-drawn and electric street cars in foregrd.], c1901. — historic photograph
[New York City: Plaza Hotel. Horse-drawn and electric street cars in foregrd.], c1901.. Historic photograph from the Horses 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 [New York City: Plaza Hotel. Horse-drawn and electric street cars in foregrd.] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[New York City: Plaza Hotel. Horse-drawn and electric street cars in foregrd.]

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Few hotels in turn-of-the-century Manhattan were as closely tied to New York's wealthy as the Plaza, which stood at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South. What sets this view apart is the street traffic in the foreground, where horse-drawn cars share the roadway with electric streetcars, a visible sign of the shift from animal power to electric transit then under way in the city. The record's date of about 1901 comes from an old caption card and has not been verified, but the mix of vehicles fits the period. The copyright credit to Underhill suggests it was made as a commercial city view.

Created / publishedc1901.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Underhill. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Hotels; Elevated RR; Street railroads.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 931 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147831

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