The Imperial's Last View: Manhattan's Forgotten Broadway Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A streetscape preserved at the

A streetscape preserved at the hour the old hotel surrendered its windows to the wreckers

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The Imperial's Last View: Manhattan's Forgotten Broadway Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A streetscape preserved at theThe Imperial's Last View: Manhattan's Forgotten Broadway looks down a vanished stretch of the Great White Way, where cast iron facades and gaslit marquees crowded a thoroughfare since rewritten by demolition crews. A streetscape preserved at the hour the old hotel surrendered its windows to the wreckers. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press