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Broadway and Canal St., New York – Historic Reproduction

Broadway and Canal St., New York, c1899. — historic photograph
Broadway and Canal St., New York, c1899.. 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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The stereograph catches the corner where Broadway meets Canal Street, a junction that by the late 1890s carried heavy foot traffic, horse-drawn vehicles, and streetcars. Canal Street takes its name from the drainage channel cut in the early 1800s after the Collect Pond was filled in, and the crossing grew into one of lower Manhattan's busiest commercial corners. Stereo cards like this one were made as pairs of slightly offset photographs, which a viewer could fuse through a stereoscope into a single image with apparent depth. Cards of this kind were popular parlor entertainment, so the view also offers a record of how ordinary city streets looked to late-19th-century viewers.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900.
SubjectsCommercial streets--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. Broadway (New York, N.Y.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,137 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-164849

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