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Broadway looking north from Dey Street, New York – Vintage Wall Art

Broadway looking north from Dey Street, New York, c1900. — historic photograph
Broadway looking north from Dey Street, New York, c1900.. 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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A window into the past: Broadway looking north from Dey Street, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Broadway looking north from Dey Street, New York

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Broadway looking north from Dey Street is one of the few views in this group that puts the street itself at the center, with the downtown avenue running away toward the uptown blocks. Dey Street sits just north of City Hall Park, so the scene captures the dense commercial core at the southern end of Broadway as the city was reshaping itself around elevated trains and rising office towers. The Detroit Publishing Company, which operated from the 1890s into the 1920s, produced large-format views like this one, often using the cyanotype process, a cheap and durable blueprint-style method that gives the print its distinctive blue tone. The company's catalog of American streets and landscapes was widely sold, making this picture a useful record of how the city looked around 1900.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype ; image 43.5 x 25.7 cm.
GenreMammoth plates.Cyanotypes.
NotesDetroit Photographic Co." Copyright deposit no. D13470. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0574. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan513 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-80313

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