The Port of New York--Birds eye view from the Battery, looking south – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: The Port of New York--Birds eye view from the Battery, looking south, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Port of New York--Birds eye view from the Battery, looking south
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The view looks south from the Battery, the tip of Manhattan, so the harbor opens out below the viewer in a sweeping bird's-eye perspective. Currier & Ives, the New York firm famous for popular lithographs, published the print in 1892, when the port was among the busiest in the world and steamers, sailing ships and ferries crowded the water between Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Bird's-eye views like this one were a fashionable genre in the 1890s, prized for packing a whole waterfront into a single sheet. Look closely at the harbor traffic and the dense city edge, which show how the lower end of Manhattan worked as the gateway for immigrants and goods arriving from across the Atlantic.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright 1892 by Currier & Ives, N.Y. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5259. |
| Subjects | Harbors--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. Battery Park (New York, N.Y.)--1890-1900. New York (N.Y.)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,000 × 668 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215918 |
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