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New York. Red Hook. East Market Street – Historic Photo Reproduction

New York. Red Hook. East Market Street, 1913 — historic photograph
New York. Red Hook. East Market Street, 1913. 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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Step back in time with New York. Red Hook. East Market Street, a historic photograph 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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New York. Red Hook. East Market Street

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Red Hook, the waterfront neighborhood in Brooklyn, is the setting here, on East Market Street in 1913. The Wittemann Collection, a body of street and city views assembled by the photographer Wittemann, shows the street at a time when motorcars were becoming a common sight beside horse-drawn wagons. The caption card lists automobiles and drug stores among its subjects, so the scene likely includes a storefront with a parked car, though the record itself is unverified. Red Hook was then a busy industrial port district, and its streets offer a useful glimpse of everyday commercial life in early twentieth-century Brooklyn.

Created / published1913
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsWittemann Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Automobiles--1913; Drug stores; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 949 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171707

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