Edison power plant at East 35th Street – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Edison power plant at East 35th Street, 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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Edison power plant at East 35th Street
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The East 35th Street station of the New York Edison Company was one of the central power plants that supplied electric light to the city, and this stereograph records it at a moment when electricity was still new enough to draw public attention. The card was published around 1909, the year of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, which marked the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage and the 100th anniversary of Robert Fulton's steamboat. Stereo cards like this were viewed through a stereoscope, which gave the flat image a sense of depth. Its catalog record places it in the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division.
| Created / published | Corona, New York City : Stereo-Travel Co., c1909. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910. |
| Notes | 133391 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 66. |
| Subjects | New York Edison Company--Buildings--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910. Electric lighting--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910. Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,291 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-187216 |
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