Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 408

Price Realized: $ 650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ROWLEY, H.H. Amsterdam & Port Jackson, N.Y. 1881. Tinted lithographed view by C.H. Vogt. 20x28 inches sheet size, ample margins; toning on verso not readily seen on recto. Hartford, CT: H.H. Rowley, 1881

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Detailed bird's eye view of flourishing communities on either side of the Mohawk River. Boat traffic on the Erie Canal can be seen, and the key below the image gives 39 reference points including the opera house, Amsterdam Academy, churches and many prosperous textile manufacturing factories. A well preserved example of this scarce lithograph presenting a thriving town in the Gilded Age of American industry. Reps 2435.