A glimpse of New York's dry goods district – 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.)
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Step back in time with A glimpse of New York's dry goods district, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A glimpse of New York's dry goods district
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Its captions make bold claims: the district is called the largest in the world, spread over 135 acres, with 4,500 firms and $800,000,000 in capital. Those figures come from a commercial color lithograph of about 1886 by J.J. Fogerty of New York, so read them as boosters' claims rather than exact counts. Carts and a horse railroad car crowd the Broadway roadway, a reminder of how wholesale dry goods houses clustered in lower Manhattan and supplied retailers nationwide. The print later appeared in a Yeshiva University Museum exhibition on the garment trade and American Jewry.
| Created / published | c1886. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Captioned: The largest in the world ; Covering a space of 135 acres ; Containing 4,500 firms ; Employing $800,000,000 capital. Copyright by J.J. Fogerty, New York City, New York. Exhibited: A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry 1860-1960, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY, 2005-2006. |
| Subjects | Commercial streets--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Business districts--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Dry goods stores--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Carts & wagons--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Horse railroads--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Broadway (New York, N.Y.)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,682 × 3,763 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226944 |
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