The city of greater New York / [...] Charles Hart. – Antique Print
![The city of greater New York / [...] Charles Hart., N.Y. : Published by Joseph Koehler, c1905. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a2/a266b1e035b0-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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A window into the past: The city of greater New York / [...] Charles Hart., preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The city of greater New York / [...] Charles Hart.
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This bird's-eye lithograph presents the whole of Greater New York as a single panorama, the city as it stood after the 1898 consolidation of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island into one municipality. The record credits Charles Hart and the New York publisher Joseph Koehler, and gives a date of about 1905. Views like this were popular in the early 1900s, when readers wanted to grasp a fast-growing metropolis at a glance from an imagined height above the streets. The printed text accompanying the image adds explanatory context, and the color work shows how the city's waterways, bridges, and dense street grid were shaped into a readable map.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Published by Joseph Koehler, c1905. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color ; 65 x 95 cm. (image with accompanying text) |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1900-1910.Cityscape prints 1900-1910.Lithographs Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Copyright by Joseph Koehler, New York. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 584.2 |
| Subjects | New York (N.Y.)--1900-1910.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,003 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164675 |
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