Union Square, New York City

People gathered in Union Square for some event, between 1873 and 1878, probably Decoration Day 1876. Original title: Looking N.E. − Showing Union Square and and 4th Ave. Additional text on print: New York City and Vicinity - P.F. Well, Photo., 833 B'way, N.Y. - Instantaneous Panoramic Views from dome of the new building of the Domestic Sewing Machine Company [completed in 1873 at 30 Union Square, Broadway and 14th Street]. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Photo, originally in stereograph format, shows a kind of parade on Fourth Avenue in the 1870s. Other photos in the same series, also showing an event in Union Square, refer to Decoration Day 1876. The Everett House, on the left, opened in 1853.