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Exhibition

MOVING UPTOWN: Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan

Introduction
Section I (including early views)
Section II (including Erie Canal celebration and Great Fire)
Section III (including Croton Aqueduct)
Section IV (Entertainment, including theaters and the Crystal Palace)
Section V (The 1850s, including churches, houses, streets)
Section VI (Urban woes)
Section VII (Schools and libraries)
Section VIII (including Broadway and hotels and businesses)
Section IX (Parks)
Section X (Including panoramas, houses, Brooklyn Bridge)
Selection of images

Exhibition: January 24 through March 28, 1998
The New York Public Library
Center for the Humanities
Print Gallery, Third Floor

R. Waddell, January 1998