The Port of New York: birds eye view from the battery, looking South – Antique Wall Map
(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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Step back in time with The Port of New York: birds eye view from the battery, looking South, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Port of New York: birds eye view from the battery, looking South
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From the Battery, the park at the island's southern tip, this chromolithograph looks south over the harbor from a high vantage point that takes in the whole waterfront at once. Currier & Ives issued many such panoramas in the 1870s, when New York was the country's busiest port and crowded with steamships, sailing vessels, and ferries. The artists, Charles R. Parsons and Lyman W. Atwater, whose names appear on the image itself, worked in the bird's-eye tradition that made these views popular with buyers who wanted a picture of the city's growing commerce. Look closely at the piers and rigging to see how much shipping the harbor carried.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Artists: Charles R. Parsons and Lyman W. Atwater (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5257 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,077 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176813 |
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