The Great White Way, New York, at night.
Category
Photographs
Date
1910 - 1930
Materials
Glass
Measurements
45 x 106 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520988
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide, for a Taxiphote viewer. The image depicts night time on The Great White Way in New York. The Great White Way is a nickname for a section of Broadway in the Midtown section of New York City, specifically the portion that encompasses the Theatre District, between 42nd and 53rd Streets. Nearly a mile of Broadway was illuminated in 1880 by Brush arc lamps, making it among the first electrically lighted streets in the United States. A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures separated by a glass panel; the slide is inscribed 'New York Night The Great White Way'.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986