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New York from Brooklyn – Vintage Print

New York from Brooklyn, c1901. — historic photograph
New York from Brooklyn, c1901.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of New York from Brooklyn. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Five large glass negatives, each 18 by 22 inches, join into one wide view of New York seen from Brooklyn across the East River. Made around 1901 by the Detroit Publishing Company, the panorama was pieced together from separate exposures, with the sky painted in and the glass varnished and retouched by hand. The boats on the river point to the waterway's constant traffic in shipping and ferries, and the view captures the Manhattan waterfront just before the taller towers of later decades reshaped its skyline.

Created / publishedc1901.
Medium5 negatives : glass ; 18 x 22 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Mammoth plates.Panoramic photographs.Glass negatives.
NotesNegatives form a five-part panorama. Center negative listed in Detroit Publishing Co. negative log as enlargement from no. 10517. Glass varnished on left, left center, center and right negatives; glass painted on right center negative; sky painted on right negative; sky masked on center negative. Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co." on right negative. "010244" on left negative; "10244-5 sec-[...]" on center negative; "10244-5 sec-R" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. panorama no. 010244. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRivers. Boats.United States--New York (State)--New York.United States--New York (State)--East River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-80090

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