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The Elevated, New York – Historic Reproduction

The Elevated, New York, [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
The Elevated, New York, [between 1900 and 1906]. 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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Overhead tracks and steel trestles define this view, with the elevated railway towering above the street below. New York's elevated lines dated to the late 1860s, beginning on Greenwich Street, and by the early 1900s they ran along several Manhattan avenues, carrying heavy passenger traffic above crowded sidewalks. The structures cast deep shadows and brought noise and cinders to the streets beneath them, which fueled long debates about light, safety and the city's growth. The Detroit Publishing Company recorded scenes like this as part of its broad catalog of American views made around 1900.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Negative cracked and taped across center. 2832 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018530. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsElevated railroads. Streets.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62040

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