Herald Square - 1907
34th Street (left), Broadway (middle) and the elevated train tracks up the 6th Avenue.
Vintage photograph of Herald Square (right), New York, copyright claimant: Geo. P. Hall & Son, July 16, 1907. It is a composition of two photos. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Enlargement of the part of the 34th Street. The Macy's building (right) was completed in 1902. The Savoy Theatre (left) was built in 1900 and demolished in 1952. There was another Savoy Theatre in Brooklyn.
Below, enlargement of the part of the photograph on the top, showing de Herald Building (right) and Broadway Avenue, with the Times Building in the distance. The Herald Square Theatre (left) announces Eddie Foy in The Orchid, played at that theatre between April 8 to August 31, 1907. The Theater was closed in 1914.
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