[N.Y. (City) - Bowery Theatre: facade, 1828 drawn and engraved...for the New York Mirror"]" – Historic Print
![[N.Y. (City) - Bowery Theatre: facade, 1828 drawn and engraved...for the New York Mirror"]" — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b5/b5ff27eff4b8-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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[N.Y. (City) - Bowery Theatre: facade, 1828 drawn and engraved...for the New York Mirror"]"
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The Bowery theater's facade is the subject here, drawn and engraved for the *New York Mirror*, the weekly literary paper that ran views of city landmarks alongside its essays and reviews. The Bowery was a busy thoroughfare, and its theater drew large crowds for popular drama and melodrama, so a view of its front shows how a public entertainment house presented itself to the street. Because it was made for a periodical, the engraving also reflects the period's taste for architectural records of a growing city. Look at the entrance, signage, and the crowd of passersby to see how the building fit into everyday street life.
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
|---|---|
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,462 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124299 |
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