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New York from the Cupola of St. John's Church, looking East, South and West – Antique Print

New York from the Cupola of St. John's Church, looking East, South and West — historic image
New York from the Cupola of St. John's Church, looking East, South and West. Historic image from the New York City collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic image of New York from the Cupola of St. John's Church, looking East, South and West brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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New York from the Cupola of St. John's Church, looking East, South and West

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Few vantage points in old Manhattan offered as wide a sweep as a church cupola, and this view takes in the city in three directions at once. Engravings and prints like this were popular in the nineteenth century, when artists worked from high positions to show a fast-growing town as a crowded skyline of roofs, steeples and chimneys. Look closely at the street grid, the waterfront and the church spires, since these details record how the city looked before later buildings replaced much of it.

Original scan12,152 × 7,921 px · prints to 41 × 26 in at 300 dpi
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