[Broadway, Looking South from Prince Street, New York]
Three eagles can be found in this photograph looking south along Broadway from Prince Street. So, too, a rooster, a bear, a horse, and several ghostlike specimens of the human race. The unknown picture maker - perhaps William B. Holmes whose sign appears in the exact center of the photograph - recorded one of Manhattan's most active and attractive blocks in the 1860s. More than a century later it remains so. The handsome marble-faced building at the corner on the right still stands. Built in 1860 for the retail silversmith and jewelry firm of Ball, Black & Co., it is currently home to another purveyor of luxury goods - a well-known retailer of lingerie.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Broadway, Looking South from Prince Street, New York]
- Artist: Unknown (American)
- Date: 1860–76
- Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Dimensions: Image: 10 7/8 × 8 3/8 in. (27.7 × 21.2 cm)
Mount: 14 1/2 × 11 1/4 in. (36.9 × 28.5 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift, 2002
- Object Number: 2002.183
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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