Broadway, New York: South from the Park
By Currier and Ives

"Although undated, the small print Broadway, New York typifies the firm's early output and shows the social and commercial hub of New York in the 1840s. The park in the foreground lies just south of City Hall, and the view down New York's main thoroughfare depicts, at left, the famous American Museum operated by showman P.T. Barnum; at right, Astor House, former residence of industrialist John Jacob Astor, which had been converted into a popular hotel; and further south, the venerable St. Paul's Chapel and the newly built Gothic-Revival Trinity Church on Wall Street. Just out of sight, at left, was Nathaniel Currier's original shop at the corner of Nassau and Spruce Streets."