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[Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York, N.Y.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York, N.Y.], [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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This rare historic photograph captures [Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York, N.Y.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York, N.Y.]

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The corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street sits where the New York Public Library's main building would later rise, and the crossing was already one of the city's busiest in these years. The record lists buses and carriages among its subjects, a pairing that captures the avenue in transition, when horse-drawn traffic still shared the street with early motor vehicles. The glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely around the turn of the twentieth century recording American cities and towns for commercial sale.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. H 457" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036485. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Buses. Carriages & coaches. Commercial facilities.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67961

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