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[Hotel Astor, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[Hotel Astor, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Hotel Astor, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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 [Hotel Astor, New York, N.Y.], 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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[Hotel Astor, New York, N.Y.]

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Two glass negatives, joined side by side, capture the Hotel Astor on Broadway in Manhattan as one wide view, a format the Detroit Publishing Company used to show large buildings in full. The Astor opened in 1904 near the newly renamed Times Square and was among the grand hotels that gave the district its reputation for luxury and nightlife in the early 1900s. The Detroit company sold its views to publishers and travelers, and its plates from this period record how the city's streets and hotels looked before many of them were rebuilt.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 10 x 8 in.
GenrePanoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7528" on left negative; "G 7527" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037205. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan797 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68652

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