Friday, July 15, 2016

Visualizing 19th-Century New York

A spatial interface to twenty essays on the objects and themes of the exhibit as well as the objects and landmarks.  
Nineteenth-century New York City was a visual experience, a spectacle for residents and visitors alike. Visions of Broadway dominated the burgeoning number of visual images of New York that poured out of commercial publishing firms and entered American homes during the nineteenth century.
More at Visualizing 19th-Century New York, Framing the City: Civic Landscape and Identity, and other essays