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The Sunday noonday crowd on Fifth Ave., looking north from 53rd St., New York – Historic Reproduction

The Sunday noonday crowd on Fifth Ave., looking north from 53rd St., New York, c1907. — historic photograph
The Sunday noonday crowd on Fifth Ave., looking north from 53rd St., New York, c1907.. 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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Step back in time with The Sunday noonday crowd on Fifth Ave., looking north from 53rd St., New York, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street, looking north, is the setting here, with a Sunday crowd filling the sidewalks at midday around 1907. The card was issued by the H.C. White Company, a Vermont firm that produced stereographs for home viewers, whose paired images gave a street scene its sense of depth through a stereoscope. This stretch of Fifth Avenue was a well-known promenade for shoppers and strollers, so the scene shows how New Yorkers spent a weekend afternoon. The date is approximate, since the catalog data comes from an older caption card.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by the H.C. White Co. No. 63. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,381 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146932

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