11700.
City Hall Fountain. Brooklyn, NY.
George Stacy
11701.
The Spar. Soda Fountain.
11702.
Flushing Institute, Flushing, L.I., Nov. 24, 1860. Boys with lacrosse equipment.
11703.
No. 244.-Skating Scene on the Lake.
11704.
No. 336.-The Everett House, Fourth Avenue.
11705.
Everett House.
11706.
334.-Fifth Avenue Hotel, front view, Madison Square.
11707.
319-Broadway and Bank of the Republic.
11708.
No. 343. New York Hotel. Gurney’s Photo Studio at 707 Broadway, between Washington Place & West 4th Street is the white building at the left of the image.
11709.
No. 338. Office of the Commissioner of Emigration, Castle Garden.
11710.
341.-A.T. Stewart’s Store, Broadway. At very right is the sign for Brady’s Studio, E. 10th St. and Broadway.
11711.
No. 378. Niblo’s Garden-B’way.
11712.
303. New York. Trinity Church, South view.
11713.
No. 737. New York. Baptist Church, Broome St.
11714.
389. The Battery & Castle Garden.
11715.
No. 361. The Street Cars.
11716.
South Ferry.
11717.
No. 302. View on B’way and Trinity Church.
11718.
View on Broadway, near Trinity Church.
11719.
371.-Olympic Theatre.
11720.
No. 328.-The Arsenal on Seventh Avenue.
11720.
The Arsenal on 7th Ave.
11721.
358. Looking up 5th Avenue.
11722.
No. 383. Worth Monument, Madison Square.
11723.
No. 337.-The Astor House.
11724.
No. 370.-Winter Garden and Broadway. Instantaneous.
11725.
No. 347. View on Fifth Avenue looking down.
11726.
No. 231. LaFarge House.
11727.
No. 89. Heavy Artillery Practice at Fort Wood, Bedloe’s Island: Firing. This island has an interesting history and in 1956 it was renamed Liberty Island and is the home of the Statue of Liberty.
1620s: For many years, the island had served the Native American inhabitants of what is now Manhattan. The island was a major source of food due to its large oyster population. Starting in 1609 with Henry Hudson, the Dutch began to arrive and colonize the land, including the smaller islands occupying the harbor- designating them the three “Oyster Islands”.
1667: A Dutch colonist by the name of Isaac Bedloe receives ownership of the island.
1669: Colonial Governor Francis Lovelace requests that Isaac’s ownership continue only if the island is renamed Love Island.
1673: Isaac Bedloe dies and Lovelace is overthrown by the Dutch. The name changes from Love to Bedloe’s Island.
1732: Isaac’s widow, Mary Bedloe Smith, sells the island to two New York merchants to avoid bankruptcy.
1738-1757: New York City takes possession of the island and uses it as a quarantine station in order to inspect arriving ships for disease. It remains so until 1746 when the island is bought by Archibald Kennedy as a vacation home for one summer. It then returns to New York possession and its quarantine state during the outbreak of smallpox in 1755.
1759-1760: A hospital is constructed on the island.
1772-1794: During the Revolutionary War, the island was used as an asylum for those colonists who still remained loyal to Great Britain during the war. It was the sight of a great attack in which many of the buildings were destroyed. The French would later use it as an isolation station. Money was then devoted by the government to construct a fortification on the island.
1807: The island is declared a military post and work begins on a military fort meant to protect New York Harbor.
1811: A star-shaped fort is completed and guards the harbor during the war of 1812. The fort is later renamed Fort Wood.
1834: An agreement is made betwixt New York and New Jersey about ownership of the island. The land itself is under the ownership of New York while New Jersey maintains the water and submerged land surrounding the island. The United States Army remains active on the island until 1937.
1871: Frederic Auguste Bartholdi tours the United States for potential locations for the Statue of Liberty. He chooses Bedloe’s island as the ideal spot and designates it the site for the statue.
1875: Edouard de Laboulaye formally requests President Ulysses S. Grants’ permission to use Bedloe’s Island as the statues’ official site. Grant signs a bill declaring so on March 3, 1877.
1881-84: Foundation work for the pedestal begins on Bedloe’s Island. Cornerstone of the pedestal is laid.
1885: Statue arrives at Bedloe’s Island and is placed in storage until the pedestal funding and construction are complete.
1886: The pedestal is complete and the statue is reassembled on Bedloe’s Island and dedicated on October 28th.
1924: The Statue of Liberty is declared a national monument by President Calvin Coolidge.
1937: The War Department renounces control of Bedloe’s Island. The National Park Service begins to redevelop the island to complement the statue.
1956: Bedloe’s Island is renamed Liberty Island.
11728.
No. 56. Archway over Footpath east of the Mall.
11750.
Broadway, Looking North from West 4th St. toward Washington Place. Partial sign at very left for Gurney’s Gallery.
11751.
Lafarge House, Broadway, NY. See Stacy stereoview listing 11657 for the same image.
11752.
Central Park. The Bow Bridge.
11753.
Central Park.
11754.
Rutgers Institute, cor. 5th Ave. & 42d St.
11755.
Free Academy, Twenty-Third Street and Lexington Avenue.
11756.
New York University.
11757.
Columbian College, Law School, Lafayette Place.
11758.
Trinity Church, South Side, Broadway, opposite Wall Street.
11759.
Society Library, University Place, between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets.
11760.
Astor Library, Lafayette Place near Eighth Street.
11761.
City Hall, Brooklyn. 1863 copyright line.
11762.
Plymouth Church-Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Orange Street, Brooklyn. 1863 copyright line.
11763.
Church of the Pilgrims, Cor. Remsen and Henry Streets, Brooklyn.
11764.
Central Park scene.
11764.
Unidentified church.
12519.
No. 316. St. Thomas Church.
12747.
Interior of the Main Saloon of the Steamer Commonwealth.
12842.
No. 38. Archway over Footpath, east of the Mall.
12878.
Central Park Boat House, No. 60. This view is from the John Meigs Collection, Washington DC. Meigs purchased these views in the 1860s and annotated his purchase: “Bo’t N.Y. City-Sep. 2, 1865-25 cts.”