A spatial interface to twenty essays on the objects and themes of the exhibit as well as the objects and landmarks
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The important landmarks that stood at this important Broadway intersection over time and by site
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A look at the technical processes along with the men and women who made all these cultural commodities in New York
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Fletcher, James, John, and Joseph Harper
ca. 1855-65
Collodion type, wet plate
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Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Collection
In February of 1863, the four Harper Brothers were photographed at Brady’s Tenth Street gallery. James and John Harper, apprenticed to New York City printers, started their printing business in 1817. Their two younger brothers Joseph Wesley Harper and Fletcher Harper joined them and the company changed its name to Harper and Brothers in 1833.
— David Jaffee
