Content: Includes views by Anthony, Bierstadt Brothers, C. H. Graves and other photographers and publishers.
Content: Photography Collection, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints & Photographs, The New York Public Library, New York, New York 10018.
Content: Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
Content: Title devised by cataloger.
Content: Views of Fifth Avenue from about 14th Street to 59th Street looking north to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: includes views of homes, businesses, churches, a man with a camera 18 stories above the street, with the Faltiron building in the background, an "undercrust" house (rootbeer and pie stand) and an "uppercrust" house (a mansion on upper Fifth); Vanderbilt residences, autos and buses.

Physical Description

Albumen prints

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPG91-F185
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16081757
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f9d85380-c556-012f-2641-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue[man with a camera]." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1906. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f9d85380-c556-012f-2641-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1906). Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue[man with a camera]. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f9d85380-c556-012f-2641-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue[man with a camera]." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f9d85380-c556-012f-2641-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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