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Sleighing in New York before Barnum's Museum – Historic Print

Sleighing in New York before Barnum's Museum — historic image
Sleighing in New York before Barnum's Museum. Historic image from the New York City collection.

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Sleighing in New York before Barnum's Museum. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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The title places this winter scene before P.T. Barnum's American Museum, which opened at Broadway and Ann Street in 1841 and became one of the city's most famous attractions. Before the museum's crowds arrived, sleighing was a common winter pastime in Manhattan, when snow turned streets into routes for horse-drawn sleighs, and wealthy families and ordinary riders alike showed off their teams and bells. The picture offers a glimpse of a street life that the growing commercial district would soon reshape.

Original scan9,498 × 6,865 px · prints to 32 × 23 in at 300 dpi
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