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i wish i was born in the 1910s and witnessed this orphans going to coney island in autos and have this photos as one of my souveneirs. 'great photos'...

Just like another LOC photo, this was taken on the north side of New York City's Union Square, on East 17th Street to be specific. In fact, I've found a modern photo on flickr (not mine, btw) whose scope and angle closely matches this one! It seems that all of the buildings on Union Square East in this photo--save for the very tall one on the right--are gone, but that many (maybe all) of the ones behind them are still around.

This was the seventh annual auto excursion of Brooklyn orphans to Coney Island, sponsored by volunteer drivers from the Automobile Club, according to this NYT story: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E04E...

This image has been used in the indicommons.org post First of The Commons, on the first anniversary of the Library of Congress and Flickr's pilot launch.

George Borgfeldt & Company George Borgfeldt & Company was located in New York (1881-1950's) and was an importer and assembler of dolls for the American and Canadian doll markets. Source: www.dollreference.com/george_borgfeldt_dolls.html

The poster for the "Grand Commonwealth Fair" occurs in several pictures of George Street, implying they must be contemporary to the event at the Town Hall in November / December 1899. The trams on this part of George St started in December 1899. See other pictures - www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3023707402/ and www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3041763769/

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Pubs of Australia, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sydney's older buildings and structures. , and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Also contemporary with -

King Street in Christiansted? That's Government House on the right in the foreground.

mangoesnjam: Thanks for the tip! It does appear this is King Street in Christiansted. We'll add that piece of information to the source data and reload the description in Flickr to match.