Huntington House - Widening 5th Ave. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Huntington House - Widening 5th Ave.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Huntington House - Widening 5th Ave.
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The title points to a house on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan that was affected by the avenue's widening, a project that required private frontages to be cut back or removed. The Bain News Service, a press photo agency active from about 1899 to 1920s, made the glass negative, and its caption data is unverified, so the exact house and date should be confirmed. Such views record how the city's grand residential avenue was reshaped as commercial traffic grew. Viewers interested in the period can compare the image with other Bain photographs of Fifth Avenue to see how the streetscape changed.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,791 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10740 |
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