Visual Materials
For correspondence to relatives and friends, get Magnus' lettersheet views of New York & Environs
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- Description
- A pictorial lettersheet on lined paper featuring a two-color, lithographed panoramic view print published by Charles Magnus. Text above the view print titles the image as "Battery-Terminus of New York elevated railroads. Castle Garden." The center of the view includes images of individuals boarding carriages at Castle Garden (now the Castle Clinton National Monument), an early immigration center that was active from 1855 to 1890. Below the elevated railroads, images include horse-drawn South Ferry carriages transporting individuals to Broadway and Central Park. Text below the image attributes the item to Charles Magnus and advertises his new series of forty-eight lettersheet views of New York.
- Production date
- after 1855.
- Call number
- priPEF 6
- Provenance





