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Fifth Ave. from 33rd St., New York City – Historic Reproduction

Fifth Ave. from 33rd St., New York City, c1916. — historic photograph
Fifth Ave. from 33rd St., New York City, c1916.. 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 Ave. from 33rd St., New York City 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 Ave. from 33rd St., New York City

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Fifth Avenue at 33rd Street sat at the edge of the midtown shopping district in 1916, where the avenue's stores and office buildings were beginning to crowd out the older residential mansions. The caption card for this photograph dates it to about 1916 and notes automobiles among its subjects, which fits the period, when motor traffic was rapidly replacing horse-drawn carriages on the city's busiest thoroughfares. Because the record is based on an old caption card and its details are not fully verified, the image is best read as a snapshot of the street's everyday traffic and streetscape in the mid-1910s.

Created / publishedc1916.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsNo copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Automobiles--1916; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,214 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147732

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