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Madison Ave. & 59th St., N.W. corner, [New York City] – Historic Reproduction

Madison Ave. & 59th St., N.W. corner, [New York City], c1927 Jan. 20. — historic photograph
Madison Ave. & 59th St., N.W. corner, [New York City], c1927 Jan. 20.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Madison Ave. & 59th St., N.W. corner, [New York City] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Madison Ave. & 59th St., N.W. corner, [New York City]

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This photograph shows the northwest corner of Madison Avenue and 59th Street in New York City, one of the city's most prominent crossings near the southern edge of Central Park. The record dates it to around January 20, 1927, but notes that the date comes from an unverified caption card. The image is a photoprint registered for copyright by Irving Underhill, a New York photographer who recorded city streets in the 1920s. In those years, Midtown was growing rapidly, and the stretch of Madison Avenue near 59th Street was becoming a center for fashionable shops and hotels, which makes the corner a useful snapshot of that change.

Created / publishedc1927 Jan. 20.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesJ288657 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Irving Underhill, N.Y. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,165 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160044

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