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[Broad Street, New York City] – Historic Photograph Print

[Broad Street, New York City], [1905?] — historic photograph
[Broad Street, New York City], [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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Broad Street, a narrow canyon in lower Manhattan, is the subject here, and its cataloged tags point to the stock exchanges that clustered around Wall Street. The New York Stock Exchange building on Broad Street opened in 1903, so a view from around the suggested 1905 date would show a street recently anchored by that grand structure. The picture is an 8 by 10 inch glass negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its early twentieth-century photographic survey of American places. Its donation to the Library of Congress in 1949 preserved a useful record of the city's commercial life.

Created / published[1905?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 2811" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033881. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets. Stock exchanges. Commercial facilities.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan797 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67036

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