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The City of New York – Vintage Print

The City of New York, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876. — antique lithograph
The City of New York, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876.. Antique lithograph from the New York City collection.

(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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The City of New York comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Issued under the plain title *The City of New York* in 1876, this lithograph is listed as number 1220 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives. The New York firm produced inexpensive colored prints by the thousands, and its city views were aimed at a broad audience eager to see the growing metropolis. The year 1876 was the nation's centennial, a moment when New York was expanding rapidly as the country's commercial center, so the print reflects a city confident in its size and importance.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1220.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,044 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175443

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