King's Views of New York, 1896-1915 & Brooklyn, 1905
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An extraordinary photographic survey. Complied by Moses King. New introduction by A.E. Santaniello. King's views contains a photographic record of almost every important building and public landmark... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Library Binding
Language:English
ISBN:0405087101
ISBN13:9780405087103
Release Date:December 1977
Publisher:Beaufort Books
Weight:4.70 lbs.
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Astounding visuals of Gilded Age New York
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This book is a compilation of Moses King's New York Guides initially published around the turn of the century. What makes his books so remarkable--which, by the way, can be downloaded for free on Google Books--is the 3-D aspect of New York City. Where other guidebooks such as Baedeker, or Murray, or Black, give directions, descriptions and 2-D maps of the past, the King guidebooks are 90% photographs and bird's-eye view renderings of the city on which the book focuses. In this case, it is New York and Brooklyn of 1896-1915, and this book is a must-buy for anyone interested in New York history, and in Mrs Astor's 400 and Edith Wharton's novels, and for historians and writers.
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