Creator |
Beer Bros., photographer. |
Contributor |
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector. |
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Douglass, David Bates, 1790-1849, engineer. |
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Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.), publisher. |
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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.
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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. |
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Buff mount with square corners. |
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Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New York. |
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Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
Subject |
Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828 -- Tomb. |
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Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.) |
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Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- New York (State) -- New York. |
Genre |
Stereographs -- 1860-1870. |
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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 |