New York City - 1867
View of New York and environs, bird's-eye view not drawn to scale, with the Battery in the foreground and center, and Brooklyn to the east. Color print includes numbered key to prominent places and features (on the right). Copyright 1867 by R. Lexow. Printed by H. Peters, N.Y. and engraved by Rudolph Kupfer (1821-1909), N.Y. Source: Print Collection of New York Public Library. Below, Black & white enlargement of the center of the copy from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
This engraving shows what New York City looked like just a few years before the skyscraper era that began in the 1870s and dramatically changed its urban landscape.
1. Brooklyn.
2. Jersey City.
3. Hoboken.
4. Williamsburgh.
5. Greepoint.
6. Hunter's Point.
7. Ravenswood.
8. Astoria.
9. Battery Immigrant Depot.
10. Government Barge Landing.
11. Bowling Green.
12. Broadway.
13. Trinity Church.
14. St. Paul's Church.
15. Wall Street.
16. Whitehall Street.
17. South Street.
18. West Street.
19. Broad Street.
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63. The Palisades.
64. Weehawken.
65. Gutenberg.
66. East River.
67. Hamilton & Atlantic Ferries.
68. Wall St. Ferry.
69. Fulton Ferry.
70. Roosevelt Ferry.
71. James Ship Ferry.
72. Catherine St. Ferry.
73. Jackson St. Ferry.
74. Grand Street Ferry.
75. Houston Street Ferry.
76. 10th Street Ferry.
77. Brooklyn Heights.
78. City Hall, Brooklyn.
79. Fulton Street.
80. Navy Yard.
81. Navy Hospital.
82. Blackwell's Island.
83. Ward's Island.
84. Hell Gate.
85. The Sound.
87. Harlem River.
88. Roanoke.
89. Dunderberg.
90. New Ironsides.
45. Bloomingdale Square [near present Columbus Circle].
46. Hamilton Square.
47. Central Park.
48. Staten Island Ferry.
49. Liberty Street Ferry.
50. Cortlandt St. Ferry.
51. Barclay Street Ferry.
52. Pavonia Ferry.
53. Desbrosses St. Ferry.
54. Christopher St. Ferry.
55. Weehawken Ferry.
56. Central J.R.R. Depot & Ferry.
57. Cunard Steamships Wharf.
58. N.J.R.R. Depot & Ferry.
59. Long Dock.
60. Hamburg & Bremen S.S. Warf.
61. West Hoboken.
62. Elysian Fields.
20. Exchange Place.
21. Custom House [Merchants' Exchange].
22. Treasury Building.
23. Post Office.
24. City Hall Park.
25. City Hall.
26. New Court House.
27. Hall of Records.
28. City Hospital.
29. Chatham Street.
30. Bowery.
31. East Broadway.
32. Grand Street.
33. Canal Street.
34. 14th Street.
35. 4th Avenue.
36. Madison Avenue.
37. 5th Avenue.
38. 8th Avenue.
39. Washington Square.
40. Union Square.
41. Grammercy Park.
42. Stuyvesant Square.
43. Tompkins Square.
44. Madison Square.
New York City - 1867
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