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Specimens of New York Bill Posting, No. 897 from the series, "Anthony's Stereoscopic Views"

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Publisher E. & H. T. Anthony American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 693

Benefit concerts, minstrel shows, lectures, and horse races all clamor for attention in this graphic field of broadsides posted in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan. The stereograph format lends added depth and dimensionality to the layered fragments of text, transporting viewers to a hectic city sidewalk. Published for a national market, the scene indexes a precise moment in the summer of 1863, offering armchair tourists an inadvertent trend report on downtown cultural life.

Specimens of New York Bill Posting, No. 897 from the series, "Anthony's Stereoscopic Views", Unknown, Albumen silver print from glass negative

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