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[Fifth Avenue at Fifty-seventh Street, north to Central Park, New York City] – Antique Photo Print

[Fifth Avenue at Fifty-seventh Street, north to Central Park, New York City], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Fifth Avenue at Fifty-seventh Street, north to Central Park, New York City], [between 1900 and 1920]. 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 at Fifty-seventh Street, north to Central Park, New York City]

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At the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street, a sign on a pole at the right marks the cross street, and the view runs north toward the edge of Central Park. The glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that sold views of American cities and landscapes, many of them as postcards and travel prints. Dated only to between 1900 and 1920, the picture captures a stretch of Fifth Avenue then known for its fashionable mansions and shops. The cataloger supplied the title, but the sign confirms the cross street.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Sign on pole at right: E. 57 St. G 321" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 031635. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. Streets.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 711 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76892

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