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Castle garden, New York: From the battery – Historic Print

Castle garden, New York: From the battery, [New York] : N. Currier, 1848. — antique lithograph
Castle garden, New York: From the battery, [New York] : N. Currier, 1848.. Antique lithograph from the Ellis Island collection.

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Currier's view looks out from the Battery, the tip of Manhattan, toward Castle Garden, the round stone fort that had been built there in the early 1800s to guard the harbor. By 1848 the structure had been turned into a public pleasure ground with concerts and open-air promenades, and the prints of the period often show it as a place where New Yorkers went to see the harbor. Decades later it became the city's first immigration depot, from 1855 until Ellis Island opened in 1892, which gives this quiet harbor scene its later importance.

Created / published[New York] : N. Currier, 1848.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand col.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1840-1850.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0933.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,207 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-173923

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