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The Brooklyn Academy of Music - exterior – Historic Poster Reproduction

The Brooklyn Academy of Music - exterior, 1861 — vintage poster
The Brooklyn Academy of Music - exterior, 1861. Vintage poster from the Theater Posters collection.

(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 Brooklyn Academy of Music - exterior, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music - exterior

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Harper's Weekly ran this wood engraving of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's exterior in its February 2, 1861 issue, showing the new hall as the city's cultural institution took shape across the East River from Manhattan. The Academy was built to host concerts, lectures and theatrical performances, and its publication in a national illustrated weekly marked it as a civic landmark in its early years. Wood engravings like this one were the main way most readers saw new buildings before photographs became common in print. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1903.

Created / published1861
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870.
NotesTitle from item. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 214 (1861 February 2), p. 77.
SubjectsBrooklyn Academy of Music--Buildings--1860-1870. Buildings--New York (State)--New York--1860-1870. Concert halls--New York (State)--New York--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,118 × 4,161 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210787

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