Details
Creator Magnus, Charles, lithographer.
Title Bowling Green [graphic] / Lith of Chs. Magnus.
Publisher New York : Lith. of Chs. Magnus
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 13.5 x 21.5 cm (5.25 x 8.5 in.)
Description Street level view of fenced-in park containing trees and large fountain surrounded by streets lined with rowhouses. In the center is a building labeled, Washington. Also includes heavy street with men on horseback, horse-drawn carts, and a horse-drawn omnibus. Men, women, and children pedestrians crowd the sidewalks and streets. Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan is New York City's oldest park.
Notes Gift of David Doret.
Subject Carts & wagons -- New York (State) -- New York.
Children -- New York (State) -- New York.
Fountains -- New York (State) -- New York.
Horse railroads -- New York (State) -- New York.
Horses -- New York (State) -- New York.
Men -- New York (State) -- New York.
Parks -- New York (State) -- New York.
Pedestrians -- New York (State) -- New York.
Women -- New York (State) -- New York.
Geographic subject Bowling Green (New York, N.Y.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| GC - Views - U.S. -New York [P.2010.6.25]
Accession number P.2010.6.25