Caption line 1: "street views no. 1. - park row. "
caption line 2: "drawn and engraved for the new york mirror. 1830. "
credit line: "drawn by c. Burton. Engraved by wm. D. Smith. "
from the mirror:
"exactly over the top of the second carriage in the picture appears the upper story of tammany-hall, with its white-washed front, reminding us of 'an old acquaintance with a new face', while the driver and horses of the first carriage, with the aid of a friendly tree, have saved the artist the trouble of glazing a half dozen windows in the west wall of the brick meeting; which, whether visible or not, actually stands behind that very tree. Its elegant spire is sufficiently conspicuous over the roof-tree of professor chilton's four-story domicil [sic]; and it is but civil to add, that this gentleman is an operative chemist and druggist of no ordinary celebrity. Turner's grocery at the corner of beekman-street, being a little shantee [sic], not much larger than the body of a hackney coach, is totally concealed by the heads of the horses before mentioned; a very convenient screen by the by, to prevent our witnessing any accidental violation of the constitution and by-laws of the temperance society. " (emphasis in original)
to the right of chilton's are, from left to right, the chatham hotel; a house of entertainment called bachelor's hall; morse's city coffee house; a low, two-story building, half of which is occupied by thomas lewis, boot- and shoemaker, and the other half by james sweeny; the theatre hotel; the park theatre; the sock and buskin house hotel; the apothecary-store of messrs. Place & souillard; the porter-house of messrs. M. &. E. Cronly; and a small section of ira clark's establishment. Date: Published August 7, 1830.
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