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[Park Avenue, south from Thirty-sixth Street, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Park Avenue, south from Thirty-sixth Street, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Park Avenue, south from Thirty-sixth 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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A window into the past: [Park Avenue, south from Thirty-sixth Street, New York, N.Y.], 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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[Park Avenue, south from Thirty-sixth Street, New York, N.Y.]

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Park Avenue running south from Thirty-sixth Street shows the street's residential character in the years before tall apartment towers filled the avenue. The rows of townhouses lining both sides reflect the appeal of the Murray Hill district to well-to-do New Yorkers in the early twentieth century. The picture survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sent photographers across the country to record cities, towns and landscapes. Its catalog number and the marking on the negative help place it within that large collection.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 9262" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500709. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Row houses.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74965

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