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[Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Broadway and Fifth Avenue, 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Where Broadway meets Fifth Avenue beside Madison Square, this view records one of Manhattan's busiest crossings in the years before the district's tall office buildings fully took shape. The 8 by 10 inch glass negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for large-format views of American cities and landscapes that it sold to travelers and collectors. The date range of 1900 to 1910 places the scene in an era when streetcars, horse-drawn wagons and pedestrians shared these avenues. The negative reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Madison Square at right. H 329" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036493. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Commercial facilities. Plazas.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67969

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