5th Ave., Easter – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures 5th Ave., Easter in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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5th Ave., Easter
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The title places this scene on Fifth Avenue in New York on Easter, when the avenue was a traditional stage for the Easter promenade, with churchgoers and holiday strollers showing off new spring clothes and hats. The image is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, the wire-photo agency run by George Grantham Bain in the early twentieth century, whose collection at the Library of Congress holds a vast body of city street scenes. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption data the archive has not verified, so the exact year is uncertain. Still, the subject is a good window onto how New Yorkers marked the holiday in public.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12898 |
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