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Chinatown, Pell Street, looking toward the Bowery, [New York City] – Vintage Wall Art

Chinatown, Pell Street, looking toward the Bowery, [New York City], [ca. 1905] — historic print
Chinatown, Pell Street, looking toward the Bowery, [New York City], [ca. 1905]. Historic print 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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A window into the past: Chinatown, Pell Street, looking toward the Bowery, [New York City], preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Chinatown, Pell Street, looking toward the Bowery, [New York City]

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Pell Street runs through the heart of New York's Chinatown, and this view looks along it toward the Bowery, a street that by the early 1900s was lined with tenements, shops and the crowded businesses of the neighborhood. The print was published as a halftone illustration in King's Views of New York, a popular guide-book series of the period that sold city scenes to visitors and armchair travelers alike. Chinatown drew considerable curiosity from outsiders at the time, and images like this one were often shaped by that interest. The record's data comes from an old caption card and is unverified, so the exact date and vantage point should be read with that in mind.

Created / published[ca. 1905]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesIllus. in: King's Views of New York, ca. 1905, p. 46. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Chinese in U.S.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141463

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