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[Fifth Avenue on a Sunday morning, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[Fifth Avenue on a Sunday morning, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Fifth Avenue on a Sunday morning, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Fifth Avenue's Sunday crowds meet the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral in this view, and the catalog ties the scene to Easter, when churchgoers and strollers filled the avenue. The cathedral, completed in 1879 at Fifth Avenue and 50th Street, anchored a stretch of the avenue that New York's wealthier families favored for promenading. The 8 by 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which sent photographers across the country around 1900 and sold their views widely. It offers a useful record of street life in the decade when motorcars were only beginning to join the carriages and streetcars on the avenue.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Includes St. Patrick's Cathedral; cf. negative D4-33388. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033445. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCrowds. City & town life. Easter.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66706

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