19th-Century New York Postcard Book

Celebrating New York City's rich heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation, the thirty historical images in this book of postcards document its growth during the nineteenth century, a period of rapid growth and often tumultuous change.
The city's developing culture and infrastructure are surveyed in iconic photographs, lithographs, paintings, and engravings--from an open-air market, an early Easter parade, and "Hello Girls" staffing one of the city's first telephone switchboards to construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Nathaniel Currier's lithograph of the Crystal Palace, the Great Fire of 1835, the city's first elevated "train" (an open cart propelled by cable and pulleys), and much more. All are from the vast collections of the Museum of the City of New York.

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