5th Ave. - Easter 1911 – Historic Print
(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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5th Ave. - Easter 1911
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Fifth Avenue in New York City is the setting for this 1911 view of the Easter crowds, when churchgoers and strollers filled the avenue in new spring clothes. The Easter Parade was a long-standing custom in which people walked the avenue after Sunday services to show off hats, gowns and suits. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made from a glass negative by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers. The title comes from caption information the agency recorded and has not been independently verified, so the scene is best read as typical of the holiday.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| 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 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10299 |
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