View on Boulevard, New York City
★ 6 · 1896 · 1m · Documentary
Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars lend interest to the scene.
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