New York Album by Chisholm Bros Portland ME 1895 orig. from North HS Library Valley Stream NY. 

Outstanding architectural and city layout detail of the 19th Century.  AS IS

This is an accordion book with 16 pages of outstanding lithograph views of the buildings, bridges, streets and parks of New York City late 19th Century – believed to be 1895 based on my research.  The lithograph images are fantastic.

6” x 9.5 horizonal folio

The beautiful heavily embossed cover has black ink damage.

Edgewear on a number of pages and on cover

In a few places in the book it is stamped North High School Library Valley Stream, NY.

Some of the content:

Panoramic view

of Manhattan and near boroughs

West Street

near canal street

Brooklyn and

East River Bridge

New York &

Brooklyn Bridge

Liberty Enlightening

the World (Status of Liberty Bartholdi statue)

South Ferry

& Elevated RR Station

Broadway

City Hall Square

Post Office

The Pulitzer Building, Home of the New York World

Cornelius Vanderbilt 5th Avenue

Seventh Regiment Armory

Bethesda Fountain

"Manufactured by Chisholm Bros., Portland, Me., Manufacturers of Chas. Frey's original

souvenir albums of all American & Canadian cities & scenery.”

See similar book on

Columbia University digital archives

https://archive.org/details/newyorkalbum00durs_1