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Broad Street, New York – Antique Photo Print

Broad Street, New York, c1905. — historic photograph
Broad Street, New York, c1905.. Historic photograph 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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Broad Street, New York comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Broad Street in lower Manhattan, photographed around 1905, shows men gathered in the roadway for the curb market, the informal trading that happened outside the formal exchange rooms. Brokers who could not get onto the floor of the nearby New York Stock Exchange traded shares here in the open air, and the street filled with clerks, runners and onlookers. The negative is a glass dry plate from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its large catalog of American scenes from the early twentieth century. It is a useful record of how Wall Street's business spilled into the city streets.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same seriescode) available on videodisc frame 1A-30338. Men in street are part of curb market exchange. 2810 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018526. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStock exchanges. Streets. Commercial facilities. Crowds.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan802 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62036

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