(NEW YORK) loeffler, j. & rockwood Album with 14 early photographs of New York City, comprising 11 large views of the stately home and servants' quarters of Staten Island merchant L.E. Amnsinck, counterposed with 3 street scenes of lower Manhattan, including one of Amsinck's mercantile headquarters, with numerous folks peeking out the windows, and carriages and spectactors on the street. Albumen prints, 13 1/2x16 3/4 inches (34.3x42.5 cm.), and the reverse, 8 with Loeffler's credit label on mount verso and 2 with Rockwood's debossed stamp on mount recto. Elephant folio, gilt-pictorial green morocco with the decorative monogram L.E.A. on the front cover, edgewear and scuffs. 1860s
An extraordinary album that depicts the stately mansion of L. E. Amsinck, a German-American businessman, who is depicted in a formal group portrait, partying on a beautiful lawn, with his many well-heeled friends. The final photograph in the album depicts another group of men assembled on a front porch, with twins (bearded gentlemen) in the foreground and a retouched figure to their right.
