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The Bowery, New York City – Antique Print

The Bowery, New York City, c1900. — historic print
The Bowery, New York City, c1900.. Historic print 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: The Bowery, New York City, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Bowery, New York City

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The Bowery was one of Manhattan's oldest and busiest thoroughfares, and this c1900 photochrom shows it at a moment when the elevated railroad ran overhead and storefronts crowded the street below. The print is a photochrom, a process that produced color images by layering lithographic stones, and this example comes from an album the Detroit Photographic Company kept as a catalog for its office, which is why the image carries the Detroit Publishing Co. number 53621. Its survival in the Library of Congress collection, through a 1955 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado, makes it a useful record of the commercial street life of turn-of-the-century New York.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color.
NotesIn album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53621. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
SubjectsStreets. Elevated railroads. Commercial facilities. City & town life.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,531 × 3,626 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222910

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