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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of pedestrians walking along Broadway in the Financial District of New York. In the foreground at left, a man, captured in motion, walks into frame and looks towards the camera. To the right of him, other pedestrians cross Wall Street, which passes horizontally through the mid-ground. At center, a woman stands on the corner. She faces towards camera, but looks down at her purse. Behind her and other pedestrians, skyscrapers line the right or east side of Broadway. Broadway presumably enters frame behind the man standing along the left edge and stretches back towards center. A truck turns onto Broadway from Wall Street; it is viewed at an angle from the rear. The Trinity Building stands in partial view at left. It is the nearest building that lines the left or west side of Broadway. A few blocks down Broadway, the Woolworth Building is visible rising at center from the left side of the street. NRHP reference # 66000554 (Woolworth Building) Text from negative sleeve: 2361. Eastern trip October 1947 New York City 1 View from Empire State Bldg looking down on Penna R R station and Postoffice [sic] and Hudson river 2 Mertie West in front of Stock Exchange Sub Treasury bldg in background 3 Scene on Wall Street 4 Mertie West in front of stock exchan [sic] 5 View from tower of Empire State bldg 6, 7, 8 & 9 Four view s [sic] of Mertie West on balcony Empire State Bldg 10 and 11 One large and one small picture taken in Chinatown
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2361_003 ark:/21198/zz002j3pbw
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) Pedestrians--New York (State)--New York Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New York City & town life--New York (State)--New York Broadway (New York, N.Y.) Trinity Building (New York, N.Y.) Woolworth Building (New York, N.Y.)
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