Broadway, New York, from the Western Union Telegraph Building, c. 1875 by Currier & Ives

Broadway, New York, from the Western Union Telegraph Building, c. 1875, by Currier & Ives looks north over a bustling Broadway from a high vantage point, with a domed civic building and a dense wall of Gilded Age commercial buildings lining the crowded thoroughfare below. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives ran the most prolific American lithography firm of the 19th century, publishing thousands of hand-colored prints from their New York studio that shaped the popular image of American life.

Artist: Currier & Ives (Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives, New York lithography firm, active 1857–1907). Date: c. 1875.

Broadway, New York, from the Western Union Telegraph Building, c. 1875. Historic Lithograph Canvas Print.