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Fifth Avenue Sunday: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 9:21am.
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Sunday strollers on New York's Fifth Avenue circa 1913. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
Just like in the song “Easter Parade”
Submitted by bellhalla on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 4:49pm.
On the Avenue
Fifth Avenue
The photographers will snap us
And you’ll find that you’re
In the rotogravure
— Easter Parade by Irving Berlin, 1933
Triple Hobble
Submitted by Hamilton Fish on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 5:19pm.
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...
Fashionable
Submitted by vintage_girl81 on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 11:01am.
Height of fashion, then and now.
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