Details
Creator Beer Bros., photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Douglass, David Bates, 1790-1849, engineer.
Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), publisher.
Upjohn, Richard, 1802-1878, architect.
Title Sec. 108. Bay-side dell. De Witt Clinton. [graphic] / Beer Bros., photographers, No. 35 Wall Street, N.Y.
Publisher New York: Published by The Green-Wood Cemetery, office, No. 30 Broadway N.Y
Publisher NY. New York. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Shows the bas-relief adorned base of the monument, completed in 1853 after the designs of architect Richard Upjohn, dedicated to former New York governor Clinton at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The bas-relief represents Clinton's noted achievement of the Erie Canal and depicts construction of the canal by laborers, engineers, and horse-teams. Greenwood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and landscaped after the designs of civil engineer David Bates Douglass.
Is part of Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, its scenery, monuments and buildings. 164
Notes Photographer's imprint, title, and publisher from label on verso.
Buff mount with square corners.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New York.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828 -- Tomb.
Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- New York (State) -- New York.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Douglass, David Bates, 1790-1849, engineer.
Associated name Upjohn, Richard, 1802-1878, architect.
Printer Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), publisher.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Beer Bros - Cemeteries [(5)5741.F.3]
Accession number (5)5741.F.3