Apthorpe Apartments. Broadway & 78th St., New York – Antique Print
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: Apthorpe Apartments. Broadway & 78th St., 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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Apthorpe Apartments. Broadway & 78th St., New York
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The Apthorpe Apartments stood at the corner of Broadway and 78th Street, on the Upper West Side, a stretch of Manhattan that was being rebuilt in the early 1900s as the elevator apartment house replaced older rowhouses and country estates. The print's copyright notation, H124387, shows that it was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, so it was made to be published or sold as a view of the building. It captures a moment when apartment living was becoming the standard for middle- and upper-class New Yorkers, and its street-level view offers a useful record of the neighborhood's streetscape around 1909.
| Created / published | c1909. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H124387 U.S. Copyright Office. No. E-417. |
| Subjects | Apartment houses--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,304 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177614 |
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