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New York City: Plaza, 5th Ave. and 59th St. – Historic Print

New York City: Plaza, 5th Ave. and 59th St., c1905. — historic photograph
New York City: Plaza, 5th Ave. and 59th St., c1905.. 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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Few intersections in Manhattan changed as quickly as Fifth Avenue at 59th Street, where the broad plaza marks the southeastern edge of Central Park. When this view was made around 1905, the Plaza Hotel was rising on the corner and the square was still being shaped into the space later known as Grand Army Plaza. The photographer, Irving Underhill, copyrighted his street views, and the old caption card notes streetcar tracks, a reminder of how much of the avenue's traffic then moved on rails. The caption data has been revised over time, so the exact details are worth checking against the record.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Irving Underhill. Underhill Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind.; Street railroads.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 917 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147229

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