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The Port of New York: birds eye view from the battery, looking South – Antique Map Print

The Port of New York: birds eye view from the battery, looking South, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. — antique lithograph
The Port of New York: birds eye view from the battery, looking South, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872.. Antique lithograph from the New York City 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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The Port of New York: birds eye view from the battery, looking South comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Looking south from the Battery, the tip of Manhattan, this chromolithograph surveys the harbor where the city's shipping once converged. Published by Currier & Ives around 1872, it was drawn by Charles R. Parsons and Lyman W. Atwater, whose names appear on the image itself. The firm built its reputation on popular color prints of American life, and views like this one gave urban audiences a bird's-eye picture of a port that was then central to the nation's commerce. Its layered colors, built from separate stones, show how much detail the process could carry across a broad waterfront.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872.
Medium1 print : chromolithograph.
GenreChromolithographs 1870-1880.
NotesArtists: Charles R. Parsons and Lyman W. Atwater (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5257
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,121 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143834

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