New York & Brooklyn - 1850

 

Bird's-eye View of New York City and Brooklyn, showing Battery Park and Governors Island in the foreground. Illustration drawn from nature & on stone by John Bachmann (1814-1896), copyright 1850. Bachmann was born in Switzerland and arrived in New York City in 1848. Source: Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library.

Below, enlargements of a similar image black and white, copyright 1851, drawn by the same artist (Source: Library of Congress).

 

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On the right, enlargement of part of the harbor.

Below, enlargement of the part of Brooklyn (©1851).

 

 

 

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