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Dry goods district, Broadway, New York – Historic Print

Dry goods district, Broadway, New York, c1892. — historic photograph
Dry goods district, Broadway, New York, c1892.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Dry goods district, Broadway, New York in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Dry goods district, Broadway, New York

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Few street scenes from the 1890s capture the commercial energy of Manhattan as directly as this stereograph of the dry goods district along Broadway. Taken around 1892 and issued as a stereo card by the firm Strohmeyer & Wyman, it was made to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave the scene a three-dimensional depth. The caption card's subject tags point to horse-drawn traffic and street railways, both essential to the city's streets before electric trolleys and motor vehicles took over. Dry goods houses, which sold cloth, notions and ready-made clothing, clustered in this part of lower Manhattan, so the image records the busy wholesale trade that once defined the avenue.

Created / publishedc1892.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Horses; Street railways; Ph. ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,341 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146923

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