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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Frozen ruins of Barnum’s Museum as it appeared immediately after the fire of March 3rd 1868, Anthony’s Instantaneous Views, No. 5971
Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., 1868
Albumen silver prints from glass negatives (stereoscopic views)
3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (8.3 × 17.1 cm)
The New-York Historical Society, PR65.0342.0001
When P. T. Barnum’s American Museum burned in 1865, it was replaced by a second building, which was destroyed by fire in March 1868, when the water used to extinguish the fire coated the remaining structure in icicles. The ruins of the building attracted just as much attention as that of Barnum’s first museum, which had been just down the block at Broadway and Ann Streets.
— Laura Kelly-Bowditch
