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West Street, New York City – Historic Photograph Print

West Street, New York City, c1901. — historic print
West Street, New York City, c1901.. Historic print 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 print captures West Street, New York City in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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West Street runs along the Hudson River shore on the western edge of Lower Manhattan, and this photochrom shows its piers and wharves at the turn of the twentieth century, when the waterfront was a busy hub of shipping and freight. The Detroit Photographic Co. made the picture for a catalog album kept in its office, and the company used the photochrom process, a color method that produced vivid tones by printing from several stone or plate impressions, to sell views of American cities and landscapes. The image gives a useful record of how the working harbor looked just before the city's later changes to its waterfront.

Created / publishedc1901.
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color.
NotesIn album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53640. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
SubjectsStreets. Piers & wharves.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,433 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216752

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