Highest priced apartment house on Fifth Ave.; house to right is Brokaw residence – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Highest priced apartment house on Fifth Ave.; house to right is Brokaw residence, 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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Highest priced apartment house on Fifth Ave.; house to right is Brokaw residence
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Fifth Avenue's mansion district is the setting here, where a building identified as the highest-priced apartment house on the avenue stands beside the Brokaw residence. The photograph was taken by the Bain News Service on December 20, 1913, at a time when wealthy New Yorkers were increasingly giving up private mansions for apartments in multi-unit buildings, a shift that changed the avenue's character in the early twentieth century. Bain's photographs were made for newspapers and magazines, so the picture also records how one of the city's most prestigious addresses looked just before the First World War.
| Created / published | 1913 Dec. 20. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint by Bain News Service. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--1913; NY--NYC--Streets--5th Ave.--1913; NY--NYC--Res. bldgs.--Houses--Brokaw; NY--NYC--Res. bldgs.--Apt; BI--Residences; Geogr.; Apartments; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,091 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155843 |
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