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Bird's eye view of the city of New York - chromo
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Print showing a bird's-eye view of New York City with the Hudson River and the New Jersey waterfront on the left, New York Harbor and Governors Island in the right foreground, Battery Park, Manhattan, the East River, Brooklyn Bridge, and the borough of Brooklyn at center.
Blind stamp on print in lower right corner: [...] Clerks Office Southern District of New York.
Inscribed on print in lower right corner: Deposited [...].
Stamped on print in lower right corner: Division of Maps Library of Congress.
Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.
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