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Copyright 1907

Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck


Macy's Department Store and Herald Square, New York

Postmarked 1908

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Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Macy's Department Store and Herald Square, New York

Postmarked 1908


Pennsylvania Station, 1936

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Skyscrapers in Midtown.

North view from the Empire State Bldg., New York

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Forty Second Street, New York

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Printed on back
Forty Second Street looking east from Bryant Park with the New York Library on the right and midtown skyscrapers in the background, the Chrysler Building looms up in the distance. 42nd Street is one of New York's busiest throughfares.

Fifth Avenue

Sunday Morning in Fifth Avenue, New York

This postcard is not dated. Notice, however, that everyone is either on foot or in a horse drawn carriage.

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Fifth Avenue on Sunday Morning, New York City

This postcard is not dated. Notice, however, that there are both cars and horse drawn carriages. Another copy of this postcard for sale on eBay was dated 1918.

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Printed on back
"Fifth Avenue. New York.- For the last sixty years this has been the most fasionable street in New York, and it was always the ambition of wealthy men to live in it. It is lined with coastly mansions, perhaps unequalled anywhere as the indication of private wealth
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Fifth Avenue
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Double Deck Bus, on Fifth Avenue, New York City

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Printed on back
"OPEN AIR TO EVERYONE"

The Motor Onmibuses start at Washington Square and traverse six different routes, transferring at two cross town streets to Pennsylvania Station and Bleecher St. L Station. The fare is 10 cents and the average time required to make the trips each way is 40 to 50 minutes. A sign on the front end designates the route. All busses traverse Fifth Ave. from Washington Ave. Square to 57th St.

The sign on the bus in the picture says
Riverside Drive and 5th Ave
Via 72nd, Bway B 52nd (??) Wash Sq.


Fifth Avenue
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New York Public Library and Fifth Avenue, New York

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Work April 1914, Collection of Maggie Land Blanck


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