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[Fifth Avenue at West Forty-fifth Street, New York, N.Y.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Fifth Avenue at West Forty-fifth Street, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Fifth Avenue at West Forty-fifth Street, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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 West Forty-fifth Street captures a stretch of Manhattan where commercial life was thickening in the early twentieth century, a few blocks from the theater district then taking shape around Times Square. The view survives on a 5 by 7 inch glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its broad survey of American cities and landscapes around 1900. Because the title was devised by a cataloger, the specific buildings shown are best checked against the record, but the scene still shows how storefronts and street traffic shared the avenue in these years.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. G 317" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 031633. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 713 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76890

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