Woman walks down Fifth Avenue, New York, 1914

Item Overview

Title

Woman walks down Fifth Avenue, New York, 1914

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

1914

Date

1914

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Woman walks down Fifth Avenue. She wears a hat and what may be a fur coat. Across the street, there are cars, buildings, and streetlamps, as well as other pedestrians. The shadows of two other people are visible at the bottom right of the photograph. A billboard at the left reads, "C. T. Silver Overland Willys Knight Peerless automobiles Broadway at 57 St." There is another billboard for C. T. Silver below that.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 451. East. New York. 1914. See #450. Went over to the Public Library on Fifth Ave and took a couple of pictures. 2. 3 pictures of pedestrians on Fifth Ave. One shows the big buses that they were running up and down the Avenue. 5 negatives.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

New York--New York

Longitude

40.753248

Latitude

-73.981271

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Pedestrians--New York (State)--New York