Hotel Gilsey, Broadway & 29th St., New York City – Antique Wall Art
(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 Hotel Gilsey, Broadway & 29th St., New York City. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hotel Gilsey, Broadway & 29th St., New York City
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The corner of Broadway and 29th Street, where the Hotel Gilsey stood, sat in the busy stretch of Midtown Manhattan just south of Herald Square. By the 1910s the district was filling with theaters, shops, and hotels catering to travelers and theatergoers. Hotels of this kind often had their own bars and dining rooms, which made the lobby and street-level life around them a natural draw for the city's saloon culture. The record dates the picture to about 1916 and notes that the caption information is unverified, so the exact date and details of the scene should be checked against other sources.
| Created / published | c1916. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by American Studio, N.Y.C. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Hotels; Subways; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,206 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147722 |
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