Like Christmas toys on parade – Historic Reproduction
![Like Christmas toys on parade, [between 1930 and 1940] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/94/94406785a730-L.webp)
(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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Like Christmas toys on parade comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title, "Like Christmas toys on parade," points to what the camera sees: from the air, the cars and trucks crossing these New York bridges shrink to the size of holiday toys in a line. The picture comes from the 1930s, when aerial photography was still a novelty and the city's bridges were among its most dramatic new engineering works. Viewed from above, the spans show how traffic and steel structures fit together across the water, a view few people had at the time. The playful title fits the holiday board it hangs on, but the image is also a record of how the city's road network looked in the years before the Second World War.
| Created / published | [between 1930 and 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940.Aerial photographs 1930-1940. |
| Subjects | Bridges--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,069 × 4,094 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-199414 |
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