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Vintage photos of:
Sunday strollers on New York's Fifth Avenue circa 1913. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
On the Avenue
Fifth Avenue
The photographers will snap us
And you’ll find that you’re
In the rotogravure
This was the time and the place when it all came together: Oh, to be in New York in 1913 and to watch the girls hobble...sigh...
Height of fashion, then and now.
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