Oh ninteenth century, how the proud drawings of your creations rule. As does your attention to detail. I submit to you, on this Photo Friday: a visual tour of Broadway in NYC circa 1889. The
Mail & Express newspaper published this block-by-block pictorial directory of buildings and businesses along Broadway from Bowling Green to Columbus Circle. It's sort of like a visual yellow pages and map in one. (Come! Cruise Broadway! What a civilzed environment to shop and do business!)
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
These images can be browsed in the
New York Public Library's Digital Gallery, and have been made available through
their awesome flickr page. I highly recommend
clicking on a few to check the buildings out in higher resolution. Here's one I like showing Trinity Church.
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