Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0326Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of an aerial view of a street, a number of people and cars are visible below, several tall buildings line the street on both sides. Above the image "2" is printed, below the image "23156 - Fifth Ave. Looking North from 40th Street, New York City." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydeny, Aus." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
23156
FIFTH AVENUE LOOKING NORTH FROM 40th STREET, NEW YORK CITY
Lat. 40 (Degrees) N.; Long. 74 (Degrees) W.
This picture shows us the heart of New York's exclusive shopping district where the fashionable people of Manhattan do their buying. The New Yorker no longer goes down town to shop, but the shops have come up town to him. Formerly most of the large stores were located around 14th and 23rd Streets but now only Wanamaker's remains there. The specialty shops are taking the place of the department stores and are building around themselves an ideal shopping district extending along Fifth Avenue from 30th Street to 49th Street. Here all heavy trucks and delivery autos are prohibited. The little shops which line both sides of the Avenue are dainty places where the wealthy New Yorker may shop at lesiure; here is a store specializing in toys, another which offers only perfumes, a third ntohing but lingerie and laces. In the center of this exclusive district, near 42nd St. we find a place with a familiar name, "Woolworth's Five and Ten Cent Store." The store itself is not so familiar to the frequenter of the down-town district. The furnishings are all mahogany and walnut, as if the stock were the most expensive instead of the bargains found in any Woolworth store. Nearly opposite this is the public library, the greatest one in America - this building contains quite a collection of old paintings and engravings.
A few blocks north is the theater district, one of the most crowded parts of the avenue at certain hours. Fifth Avenue passes the east side of Central Park - near the south end of which is St. Patrick's, the finest Gothic cathedral in America. Many homes of leading New York families face Central Park.
Copyright by The Keystone Veiw CompanyCollection
Photograph Collection