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This collection contains images and plans of 31 country residences
in the New York suburbs. In addition to illustrating some of the
more prominent examples of Hudson River architecture in 1860,
A.A. Turner’s pictures are some of the earliest examples
of photo-lithography in the United States. View
Catalog Record
Benson J. Lossing, the region's most important
19th-century chronicler, traveled the length of the Hudson recording
its historical events and sketching its natural and cultural landmarks,
including notable architecture. (See Prints
for Lossing's many depictions of Hudson River landscape.) View
Catalog Record
