New York City as Seen from Williamsburg

New York City as Seen from Williamsburg

This image is a valuable tool in terms of understanding the history of New York City. Taken in 1848, the image highlights a busy New York City. The boat traffic in the river helps to build an understanding of how goods, services and people made it to the island. Much of the buildings in the image are small, and not very high. This helps to show that the building technology had not yet allowed buildings to grow taller. The largest buildings in the image seem to be warehouses near the river, but as we know these smaller buildings would not last for long.

Brown, Eliphalet M., and Edgar W. New York City as Seen from Williamsburg. Digital image. Https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_1848.jpg. N.p., 1 May 2005. Web. 9 Dec. 2015.

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Scott Nye