Van Amburgh & Cos. triumphal car: passing the Astor House, April 20th. 1846 – Vintage Print
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Van Amburgh & Cos. triumphal car: passing the Astor House, April 20th. 1846 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Van Amburgh & Cos. triumphal car: passing the Astor House, April 20th. 1846
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Few hotels in New York were as well known in 1846 as the Astor House, John Jacob Astor's establishment on Broadway near City Hall Park, and this print shows a parade car from Van Amburgh & Co. passing its front. Isaac Van Amburgh, the animal trainer whose act with lions made him a national celebrity, used such processions to draw crowds to his shows. Currier issued the scene as a hand-colored lithograph, a common way to sell topical street views to a broad public in the 1840s. It records how circus spectacle and city streets mixed in antebellum New York.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6868 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176366 |
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