Old News & Views

A RUSSIAN'S VIEW OF NY

"More than any other city in the world, it is the fullest expression of our modern age … a city of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automatism, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar."

 - Leon Trotsky, 1916

 

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Opening Reception Last Night

- New York Herald, Feb. 21, 1872

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"At last we have something to represent to us what the Louvre is to Paris and the National Gallery to London," said the Herald after a private showing 3 days earlier.

[Image from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, March 9, 1872]

 

A NATION’S ANNIVERSARY

Impressive Exercises at St. Paul’s and the Sub-Treasury – The Monster Parade from the Battery to the Park – Fifty Thousand Men in Line and a Million Looking On

- New York Times, May 1, 1889

The occasion was the centennial of George Washington’s inauguration. Pictured below is the Reverend Dr. R. S. Strong offering a prayer on the site of the Old City Hall where Washington took the oath.

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