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Fifth Ave. hotels, New York, N.Y. – Vintage Print

Fifth Ave. hotels, New York, N.Y., c1908. — historic photograph
Fifth Ave. hotels, New York, N.Y., c1908.. 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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Fifth Ave. hotels, New York, N.Y.

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Few New York streets in 1908 held as many grand hotels as Fifth Avenue, and this view records that stretch of the avenue. It was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that sold travel views of American cities, and the catalog number 070800 places it among the company's many street scenes. Fifth Avenue was becoming the city's most fashionable address for shopping and hotels, and the Fifth Avenue Hotel near Madison Square, opened in 1859, was one of its best-known landmarks. The record notes a cracked negative, which is worth keeping in mind when examining fine detail.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 070800. Negative is cracked. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Hotels; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,207 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146931

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