1873New York
New York — Battery Park and the East River
George Schlegel, artist; George Degen, publisher.
Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
1873·New York
New York — Battery Park and the East River
George Schlegel, artist; George Degen, publisher.
Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
What this plate shows
A colored lithograph looking north from the harbor: Battery Park in the foreground, Manhattan’s dense blocks, the East River, and a completed-looking Brooklyn Bridge at right. The bridge opened in 1883. Record the sheet as printed in 1873/74 — a drawn overview that includes a span the camera could not yet have as finished.
- Image type
- Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, PGA. Restored scan on Wikimedia Commons.
- License
- Public domain (filed 1873; LOC also dates a state 1874).
Chronologies
An 1873 harbor lithograph, then cameras on steel-frame construction: Flatiron 1902, Woolworth ironwork 1912, the finished tower, the city seen from it. Singer Tower, photographed standing, was demolished in 1967–68 — that demolition is a separate documented event.
New York — masonry to steel frame