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Pretzel vendor, 6th Ave., New York – Vintage Wall Art

Pretzel vendor, 6th Ave., New York, n/a — historic photograph
Pretzel vendor, 6th Ave., New York, n/a. 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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A window into the past: Pretzel vendor, 6th Ave., New York, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Pretzel vendor, 6th Ave., New York

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A pretzel vendor working along Sixth Avenue in New York is the subject of this glass negative, a small everyday scene of the kind that crowded the city's sidewalks in the early twentieth century. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain's news service supplied photographs of city life to newspapers and magazines, and its pictures of street peddlers and busy avenues give a useful record of how street commerce looked at the time. The title comes from caption information recorded by the news service that has not been independently verified, so the exact location and date are worth reading with that caution in mind.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,710 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-4280

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