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Broadway, New York: From the western union telegraph building looking north – Antique Photo Print

Broadway, New York: From the western union telegraph building looking north, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875. — antique lithograph
Broadway, New York: From the western union telegraph building looking north, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875.. 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Broadway, New York: From the western union telegraph building looking north. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Few views of lower Manhattan from the 1870s look up Broadway from so high a vantage as this one, which is taken from the Western Union Telegraph Building and sweeps north over the avenue's crowded commercial blocks. Published by Currier & Ives in New York in 1875, the lithograph belongs to the firm's long run of city views, which were sold widely to a public eager to see the rapidly growing metropolis. It shows Broadway as a busy corridor of carriages, horsecars, and pedestrians, a useful record of how the street looked as the city expanded northward.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0780.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,203 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-173881

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