608 - Fifth Ave. Bldg., S.W. corner of 49th St. & 5th Ave., [New York City] – Antique Print
![608 - Fifth Ave. Bldg., S.W. corner of 49th St. & 5th Ave., [New York City], c1931 Nov. 20. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ff/ff1be0cfd21e-L.webp)
(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 608 - Fifth Ave. Bldg., S.W. corner of 49th St. & 5th Ave., [New York City]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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608 - Fifth Ave. Bldg., S.W. corner of 49th St. & 5th Ave., [New York City]
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Few midtown corners were changing as quickly as Fifth Avenue at 49th Street in the early 1930s, and this photograph records the southwest corner of the Fifth Avenue Building at 608 Fifth Avenue. The date of November 20, around 1931, comes from the caption card and has not been independently verified. The print was made by Irving Underhill, a New York photographer who registered his street views with the U.S. Copyright Office as photoprints. Its location a short distance from the blocks being cleared for Rockefeller Center makes it a useful record of the streetscape just before that complex took shape.
| Created / published | c1931 Nov. 20. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | J10425 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Irving Underhill, N.Y. No. 857293. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,148 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159966 |
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