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Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue – Vintage Photo Print

Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue, c1907. — historic photograph
Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue, c1907.. 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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A window into the past: Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue

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A photographer stands on a slender support eighteen stories above the pavement of Fifth Avenue, a perch that few cameras reached in the early 1900s. The card was published by Underwood & Underwood, a firm that produced stereographs in large numbers for parlor stereoscopes sold across the country. Around 1907, New York was rising upward, and views like this let armchair viewers feel the height of the city and the streets far below. The catalog data for this card is unverified, so the exact building and vantage point are best treated as approximate.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 8288. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photogr.; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 773 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155973

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