FIGURE 2.1

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Description: New-York as It Is, Respectfully dedicated to the Corporation of the City of New York...

TitleNew-York as It Is, Respectfully dedicated to the Corporation of the City of New York by Serrell & Perkins

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1850

Object typePrint

MaterialsUnknown

LocationThe Library Company of Philadelphia

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsCity and town life in artRefuse and refuse disposalNew York (N.Y.)--History--1775-1865Urban sanitation

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Chapter 2. The Relics of Civilized Life

Dell Upton

Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic

~Early-nineteenth-century New Yorkers called Broad Street, one of the city’s principal thoroughfares, Smell Street, while Beaver Street was Slaughterhouse Lane, nicknames that acknowledged the oceans of fetor that flooded antebellum American cities. Tanneries, distilleries,...

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Dell Upton

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.41-53

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00271.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21806&redirecttoanchor=70478

Chapter subject tags:Urban sanitationSenses and sensationDiseasesPollutionCities and towns--United States--History--19th century

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