A spatial interface to twenty essays on the objects and themes of the exhibit as well as the objects and landmarks
More informationThe important landmarks that stood at this important Broadway intersection over time and by site
More informationA look at the technical processes along with the men and women who made all these cultural commodities in New York
More informationHannah Wirta Kinney
Claire McRee
Kelsey Brow
Andrew Gardner
Kirstin Purtich
Kirstin Purtich
Claire McRee
Laura Kelly-Bowditch
Kelsey Brow
Virginia Fister
Martina D’Amato
Zahava Friedman-Stadler
Virginia Spofford
Virginia Spofford
Martina D'Amato
Virginia Fister
Andrew Gardner
Center table with marble top
1850–70
Rosewood, oak, marble
28 × 39 1/4 × 27 in. (71.1 × 99.7 × 68.6 cm)
The New-York Historical Society, Gift of Mary Clinton Brown, 1940.286ab
From the fine furnishings of Broadway’s French- and German-born cabinetmakers to the mass-produced goods of working-class, immigrant-run establishments on the Lower East Side, then called Kleindeutschland (Little Germany), the parlor furniture trade played an important role in mid-nineteenth-century New York. This rosewood center table and side chair illustrate the Victorian predilection for combining European historical styles, with its Jacobean-style turnings and lion’s-paw feet.
— Martina D’Amato