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[John C. Graul's art store, 217 Fifth Avenue, New York] – Historic Reproduction

[John C. Graul's art store, 217 Fifth Avenue, New York], [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
[John C. Graul's art store, 217 Fifth Avenue, New York], [between 1900 and 1905]. 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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Graul's art store is shown here at its storefront, though the sources disagree on the address: the title gives 217 Fifth Avenue, while a later cataloguer's note places it at 137 West 23rd Street. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made the negative, was a commercial firm known for photographs and hand-colored photochrom prints of American cities and landscapes. Its large glass negatives, exposed around 1900 to 1905, record signs, window displays and street life with enough detail to be useful to historians of New York's commercial streets.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Identified as 137 West 23rd Street, (8/1995, C. Gray) Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043153. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsGalleries & museums. Commercial facilities.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70139

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