Department of Markets seal, City of New York – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Department of Markets seal, City of New York in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Department of Markets seal, City of New York
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The Department of Markets seal is the detail that sets this picture apart: a city emblem rather than a farm or stall, showing the civic authority that once oversaw New York's public markets. Municipal departments like this one regulated the sale of food, weights and measures, and the stalls where farmers and vendors met city shoppers, so the seal stood for order in a trade that touched nearly every household. Its presence on a board about barns and farms is a reminder that the countryside's produce depended on urban rules and marketplaces to reach the people who bought it.
| Original scan | 3,316 × 2,187 px · prints to 11 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12733_DeptofMarketsseal |
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