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[England - London - Piccadilly Circus] – Antique Print

[England - London - Piccadilly Circus], c1895. — historic photograph
[England - London - Piccadilly Circus], c1895.. Historic photograph from the Circus & Carnival 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 historic photograph of [England - London - Piccadilly Circus] brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[England - London - Piccadilly Circus]

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Piccadilly Circus takes its name from the round junction where Regent Street, Piccadilly, and several other streets meet, not from any circus show, a point that is easy to miss on a board of circus subjects. The junction took shape in the early 1800s as part of John Nash's Regent Street scheme, and by the 1890s it was one of London's busiest crossings. The Shaftesbury Memorial, popularly called Eros, was unveiled at its center in 1893, so a view from around 1895 would have shown the recently installed fountain amid crowds, carriages, and omnibuses.

Created / publishedc1895.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by J.J. Killelea. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,451 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124262

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