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Photo, Print, Drawing [Stereographs of New York City, New York]

About this Item

Title

  • [Stereographs of New York City, New York]

Summary

  • Photographs show commercial, cultural, financial and religous buildings and street views, New York City, New York. Primary subjects include churches; hotels; banks and exchanges; shipping docks and ferry terminals; ships and ferries in New York Harbor. Some specific places depicted: the Olympic Theater (2 views); New York Academy of Music; the Battery and Castle Garden, Union Square, Chatham Square and Madison Square; Grace Church and Trinity Church; Astor Department store; Everett House, Fifth Avenue Hotel and Lafarge House hotel (later the Southern Hotel); the Corn and Merchant exchanges; Bank of the Republic. Also views of Columbia College Law School (3 cards), New York University (1 card) and Astor Library (1 card). One image shows Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession, April 1865. Street views primarily show Broadway and Fifth Avenue. Five cards related to the visit of the Japanese Embassy to New York in 1860.

Names

  • Stacy, George, publisher
  • Hoyer, H., active 1850-1870, photographer
  • Hoyer, H., active 1850-1870, publisher

Created / Published

  • [1860-1880, bulk ca. 1865]

Headings

  • -  Commercial facilities--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880
  • -  Commercial streets--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880
  • -  Churches--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880
  • -  Stores & shops--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880
  • -  Financial facilities--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880
  • -  Plazas--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880
  • -  Cultural facilities--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880
  • -  Piers & wharves--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880
  • -  Marine terminals--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880
  • -  Ships--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880
  • -  Boats--New York (State)--New York--1860-1880

Format Headings

  • Albumen prints--1860-1880.
  • Albumen prints--Hand-colored--1860-1880.
  • Stereographs--1860-1880.

Genre

  • Stereographs--1860-1880
  • Albumen prints--1860-1880
  • Albumen prints--Hand-colored--1860-1880

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  The majority of the cards are uncredited, but likely published by George Stacy, based on provenance. Eight images are credited to H. Hoyer; one card published by A. J. Fisher, N.Y., one published by E. Ridley & Sons.
  • -  Series represented include: American Scenery. New York City (28 cards) and American Views. New York City (21 cards).
  • -  Many Stacy cards possibly reissued around 1865 from negatives taken in the early 1860s.
  • -  Group includes variants of the same view.
  • -  Gottheim collection code: GNY.
  • -  Photocopies of some of these stereographs, serving as ready reference surrogates, filed in Supplementary Archives Filing Series under LOT 14157.
  • -  Forms part of the Larry Gottheim collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress).
  • -  Purchase; Larry Gottheim; 2008; (DLC/PP-2008:007).

Medium

  • 132 photographs : albumen prints on card mounts, 5 hand-colored ; mounts 9 x 18 cm or smaller (stereograph format)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 14157 (H) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress)

Repository

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017647741

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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  • Call Number: LOT 14157 (H) [P&P]
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Chicago citation style:

Stacy, George, Publisher, and H Hoyer, Hoyer, H., Active, photographer. Stereographs of New York City, New York. New York, ca. 1865. [1860 to 1880, Bulk] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017647741/.

APA citation style:

Stacy, G. & Hoyer, H., Hoyer, H., photographer. (ca. 1865) Stereographs of New York City, New York. New York, ca. 1865. [1860 to 1880, Bulk] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017647741/.

MLA citation style:

Stacy, George, Publisher, and H Hoyer, photographer by Hoyer, H., Active. Stereographs of New York City, New York. [1860 to 1880, Bulk] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017647741/>.