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[The Elevated, Eighth Avenue and 110th Street, New York] – Vintage Photo Print

[The Elevated, Eighth Avenue and 110th Street, New York], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[The Elevated, Eighth Avenue and 110th Street, New York], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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: [The Elevated, Eighth Avenue and 110th Street, New York], 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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Eighth Avenue at 110th Street, at the northern edge of Central Park, is the spot this view records. The Manhattan Elevated's Eighth Avenue line ran on iron structures above the street, and its tracks cast shadows over the wagons, carriages and pedestrians below. The Detroit Publishing Company made this glass negative sometime between about 1900 and 1910, when the elevated trains were a relatively new part of daily life in the city. Its photographers documented American cities and landscapes for commercial sale, so the image also shows how a busy uptown avenue looked in those years.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 2833" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033875. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsElevated railroads. Streets.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67030

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