Flower vender's [sic] Easter display in Union Square Park, New York – Vintage Wall Art
![Flower vender's [sic] Easter display in Union Square Park, New York, [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/64/6418a39693d5-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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A window into the past: Flower vender's [sic] Easter display in Union Square Park, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Flower vender's [sic] Easter display in Union Square Park, New York
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Start with the setting: this view captures a flower seller's Easter display in Union Square, one of the busiest gathering points in turn-of-the-century Manhattan. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced these views of American cities and landscapes, made the image on a large glass dry plate, likely between 1900 and 1910. Peddlers working the park's paths sold blooms to churchgoers and strollers around the holiday, when potted lilies and cut flowers were in strong demand. The picture offers a close look at how street commerce and public parkland mixed in the city before the automobile reshaped those spaces.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042980. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Peddlers. Flowers. Easter. Parks.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-69980 |
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