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[New York City: Hotel Seymour, 44 West 45 St.] – Historic Print

[New York City: Hotel Seymour, 44 West 45 St.], c1911. — historic photograph
[New York City: Hotel Seymour, 44 West 45 St.], c1911.. 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 [New York City: Hotel Seymour, 44 West 45 St.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[New York City: Hotel Seymour, 44 West 45 St.]

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Hotel Seymour stood on West 45th Street in Midtown Manhattan, on a block that filled with hotels, theaters and restaurants as the Times Square district grew in the early 1900s. This photograph, dated about 1911, was made by Irving Underhill, a New York photographer who documented city streets and buildings during that period. Street-level views like this one are valued by historians of urban life because they record storefronts, signage and the everyday character of a neighborhood before later redevelopment changed it.

Created / publishedc1911.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No copyright renewal. No. D556. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Hotels.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan918 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147826

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