New York and Brooklyn – Historic 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.)
Description
A window into the past: New York and Brooklyn, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The sheet's subject is the pairing itself: New York and Brooklyn shown together across the East River, two neighboring cities that shared one busy waterfront. Brooklyn was then a separate city with its own government and did not join Greater New York until 1898, so the print records a boundary that was political as much as geographic. Charles R. Parsons and Lyman W. Atwater are credited with the design, and Currier & Ives issued the sheet as a color lithograph around 1875. Viewers today will want to look closely at the harbor and shoreline, which show how central the river was to daily life in both places.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1875. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Artist: Charles R. Parsons and Lyman W. Atwater. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4819 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,058 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175532 |
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