New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y. [Bird's-eye view]: Looking west from St. George – Antique Map Print
![New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y. [Bird's-eye view]: Looking west from St. George, c1905. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/77/778a65b7375a-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.)
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New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y. [Bird's-eye view]: Looking west from St. George comes to life in this historic photograph, 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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New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y. [Bird's-eye view]: Looking west from St. George
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Taken from an elevated position above St. George, this view looks west over New Brighton on Staten Island's North Shore, laying out the neighborhood's streets and rooftops in a single sweep. In the late 1800s New Brighton developed into a place of hotels, summer homes and churches, drawing New Yorkers who crossed the harbor by ferry from Manhattan. The print is credited to A. Loeffler and dated to about 1905, though the record notes that these details come from an unverified caption card. Bird's-eye views like this were popular at the time and preserve a picture of the built landscape before later development reshaped it.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by A. Loeffler. No. 927. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 915 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147815 |
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