Gun Driven by Tractor, Passing Through Victory Arch, Flatiron Building in Background, New York, N.Y. – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 Gun Driven by Tractor, Passing Through Victory Arch, Flatiron Building in Background, New York, N.Y.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gun Driven by Tractor, Passing Through Victory Arch, Flatiron Building in Background, New York, N.Y.
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Few parade pictures show a field tractor hauling a artillery piece down a city avenue, but this stereograph does, with the Victory Arch spanning the street ahead and the Flatiron Building rising behind it. The arch was a temporary structure erected in Manhattan for the homecoming celebrations after the First World War, when crowds lined Fifth Avenue to greet returning troops. The Flatiron, completed in 1902, was already one of the city's best-known landmarks, so its presence anchors the scene in a specific corner of Manhattan. Keystone View Company produced stereo cards like this for home viewers, who saw the street in three dimensions through a stereoscope.
| Created / published | c1919 Aug. 30. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | J236447 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 19164. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army? Artillery; WWI--U.S.; N.Y.C.-; Processions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 808 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132865 |
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