Department of History                            

The Fieldston School                                                                                                                                                                .

Inventing Gotham

 

Central Park Slides:

 

Coketown, 20th C.                                                                                Jacob Riis, Lodgers in Bayard St., Ò5 cents a spot,Ó 1890

 

Picturesque America, 1870s                                                             Asher Durand, Sunset, 1878

 

Currier and Ives, Across the Continent, 1868

 

AJ Downing, Picturesque Cottages

 

AJ Davis, Entry Gate, Llewelyn Park, 1857                          AJ Davis, Llewelyn Park, 1857

 

Pope Sixtus V Plan for Rome, 16th C                                         Le N™ tre, Versailles, 1746

 

Versailles, English Garden of Marie Ant.

 

New Amsterdam, ÒCastello Plan,Ó 1660                                NYC, 1797

 

Goerck Survey of Manhattan, 1785/ 1796                               CommissionersÕ Plan, 1811

 

Area of Central Park, 1854 (Croton Res., Arsenal, Asylums, etc.)

 

Two CP Proposals, AldermenÕs Report, 1852                        Olmsted and Vaux, 1863

 

Fulton and BÕway, ÒWhiskered and Mustachioed Chatterers,Ó 1860

                                                                                                                          CP, 1894

 

Seneca Village

 

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