Broadway - Nineteenth Century

View of Broadway looking south from Cortland Street, with Trinity Church in the distance. Although the title of the illustration indicates the year 1834, the Church's neo-Gothic temple, as shown, was only ready in the 1846. The City Hotel was expanded to five-story high in 1833.

Lithograph for D.T. Valentine's Manual for 1859. Lithographer George Hayward. Source: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, New York Public Library.