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Nassau Street, New York – Antique Photo Print

Nassau Street, New York, c1905. — historic photograph
Nassau Street, New York, c1905.. 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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Nassau Street, New York comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Nassau Street, New York

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Nassau Street in lower Manhattan, photographed around 1905, shows a commercial thoroughfare in the years when the city's streets were crowded with storefronts, horse-drawn traffic and early electric trolleys. The negative is an 8 by 10 inch glass plate from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely and sold views of American cities as postcards and lantern slides. Nassau Street runs north from Wall Street toward City Hall Park, so it sat at the heart of the financial district, and a plate like this records the working streetscape that surrounded the banks and offices there. The glass format gives the image a sharp, detailed record of signs, facades and street life from the period.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30337. 2764 G" on negative; "18" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018525. 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 scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62035

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