Nineteenth-Century New York in Rare Photographic Views - Softcover

Lightfoot, Frederick S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486241378 ISBN 13: 9780486241371

Publisher: Dover Pubns, 1981

Synopsis

Dover Softcover with 151 b/w photographs plus Introduction pages and Contents. - New York was a different city before the turn of the century. The pictures in this book have been shot directly from hard-to-find original stereographs, double-image photographs which yielded a three-dimensional scene when viewed through a stereoscope. Numerous on-the-spot photographs of street vendors, tenements, churches, shops, hotels, theaters, parks, markets and elevated trains recall the everyday environment of the city. Abundant scenes of Broadway reveal its importance as N.Y.'s cultural and commercial spine, New York Stock Exchange and Astor House suggest realms of worldly power and influence. - Captions for each plate that provide historical background, significance of the locale, relevant facto and lore, etc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Pubns
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0486241378
• ISBN 13: 9780486241371
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 151