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The oldest known photograph of New York: Broadway & Franklin St, circa May 1850
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(Source: pleaseshowmehowtolive, via iamkeithhernandez)
I think this is neat.
The very model of bureaucracy. 200 year under construction and it’s still not finished.
Even then they were always tearing up the street!
Only it’s not reeeeally the oldest. Maybe the oldest showing the city sort of as it looks now (that is, as a city and...
Technically the oldest was a daguerreotype that was taken in the 1840s. Although this could probably be considered the...