The City of Brooklyn – Antique Wall Art
![The City of Brooklyn, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/72/725391981812-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: The City of Brooklyn, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The City of Brooklyn
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Currier & Ives produced this 1879 lithograph as a bird's-eye view of Brooklyn, then still a separate city across the East River from Manhattan and not yet absorbed into New York City, which happened in 1898. Such panoramic views were popular in the period because they let viewers take in a whole city at a glance, with its streets, church spires, waterfront, and shipping rendered in careful detail. The firm, based in New York, sold these hand-colored and plain prints widely, so the image also shows how civic pride and commercial promotion went hand in hand in the late nineteenth century.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1205. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,043 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175440 |
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