The Port of New York--Birds eye view from the Battery, looking south – Historic Map Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The Port of New York--Birds eye view from the Battery, looking south, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Port of New York--Birds eye view from the Battery, looking south
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The view is taken from the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan, and looks out over the harbor toward the south, so the viewer sits high above the waterfront as if hovering over the ships. Currier & Ives, the New York firm famous for popular lithographs, issued this color print in 1892, at a time when the port was the busiest in the country and steamships, ferries and sailing vessels crowded its waters. Bird's-eye views like this one were prized by a public eager to see the city's growing commerce laid out at once. The print is catalogued in the firm's raisonné, where it sits among many similar harbor scenes from the period.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright 1892 by Currier & Ives, N.Y. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5259. |
| Subjects | Harbors--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. Battery Park (New York, N.Y.)--1890-1900. New York (N.Y.)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,400 × 1,602 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215918 |
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