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URBAN SITES

P.T. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM

The Lost Museum (interactive web tour of Barnum’s American Museum)

BLACKWELL’S ISLAND

Alms House, Buildings, Blackwell’s Island, 1850

BROADWAY

Broadway, between Howard and Grand Streets, 1840

Winter scene in Broadway, 1857

CENTRAL PARK

History of Central Park #1; History of Central Park #2

Central Park: 1861 #1

Central Park: 1861 #2

Central Park: 1861 #3

Central Park: 1861 #4

Central Park: 1861 #5

Central Park: 1861 #6

Central Park: Frederick Law Olmsted (designer)

Andrew Jackson Downing (influence on Olmsted)

CRYSTAL PALACE EXHIBITION

Horace Greeley, Art and Industry as Represented in the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, New York, 1853-54

THE DEPARTMENT STORE

Evolution of the Department Store

Space of Desire: Department Stores in the Gilded Age

“Ladies’ Mile” shopping district in New York

FIVE POINTS

Five Points: archaeology and history

The Neighborhood that was the Five Points (maps and images)

Museum of the City of New York exhibition:
“Five Points, Manhattan’s Infamous Slum”

Urbanography: “Where ‘the Gangs’ Lived: New York’s Desperate Five Points neighborhood in the 19th Century” (links to articles and images)

UNION SQUARE

Bird’s-eye view from Union Square, 1853