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St. Mary's Church. 1797. : The first Catholic Church in Albany

Description: Image of an elevated street view of the two-story St. Mary's Church in Albany, New York, depicted in the late 18th century, on a street corner with surrounding buildings, two women walking on the sidewalk, and a fort on the hill in the distance.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1886 and 1900
Call number: priJLC_REL_001019
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

State Street, Albany, : 1805

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of State Street in Albany, New York, depicted in the early 19th century, from the top of a hill with two men sawing a log before a storefront with the sign "Chair Manufa[cturer]," a horse-drawn cart, houses, storefronts, and a church, with hills in the distance.

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St. Alphonsus Church New York, : South Fifth Avenue near Canal

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated street view of the St. Alphonus Church in New York City, with gothic design elements and steeple, on a street corner showing people walking into the building, pedestrians, and a horse-drawn carriage in the street.

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Das Deutsche ev. luth. Concordia – Predigerseminar : zu St. Louis, MO. : Vollendet im September 1883

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated street view of the Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, showing people on the campus grounds and tree-lined sidewalk, a horse-drawn trolley and man on horseback in the road in the foreground.

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The floating church of the redeemer, Philadelphia

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the Church of the Redeemer church boat, floating on the Delaware River, with parishioners walking on the deck, and the port and city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the distance; a flag marked "Church of the Redeemer" flies from the building's spire.

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Albany - Exchange, & Museum

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the corners of Broadway and State Streets in Albany, New York, showing the Exchange Bank on the right-hand corner, a museum on the left-hand corner, and surrounding businesses, with streets bustling with pedestrians, a street market, and horse-drawn carriages.

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Worcester Salt Special, 162 cars started by President-Elect William McKinley. Train nearly one and a half miles long

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated landscape view of a long train of steam locomotives and yellow box cars crossing through a rural landscape with factory buildings and smokestacks in the distance and the front train crossing a bridge over a river in the foreground with four men walking on the bridge and two men walking on a boxcar roof; each car has two white flags labeled "W.S." and the cars have signs for Boston, Massachusetts, and grocery companies; the front locomotive has a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement and "Erie" written on the cab.

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St. Mary's Church. 1797. : The first Catholic Church in Albany

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