Identifier: historyofnewyork01loss (find matches)
Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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s on photographic bases.The process he kept secret. In 187<J his name was first mentioned by the jurors at theCentennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, in their report, for general artistic excellencein all styles of portrait photography, plain, crayon, oil. and pastel, and for a new processof making durable crayons. He was the only artist whose crayon drawings wereadmitted as works of art to Memorial Hall (where photographs were excluded) by acommittee of eminent artists. Orders for his crayon drawings have been received fromParis and other cities of Europe. In 1880 Mr. Kurtz had received letters-patent for the vibrotype, an improvement ofthe old way of taking photographic pictures ; also for the conigraph, an invention fora variety of uses for artists who work on paper. The latter was patented in France. Mr. Kurtz has filled the offices of president of the German Photographic Society, vice-president of the American Photographic Society, and president of the Palette Art Associ-ation.
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 415 They made Pine, Cedar, and Liberty streets the great centre of thewholesale dry-goods trade. Gradually firm after firm ventured uponBroadway in the lower part. In lS-iu a wholesale store on Broadway,half a mde from the Battery, was unknown. The centre of businesswas then within a quarter of a mile of the Battery. When a venture-some merchant opened a wholesale store on the site of old GraceChurch, on the corner of Rector Street and Broadway, conservative andcautious men said, * Too high up! But the omnibuses and the citv railroads soon wrought a change inbusiness and domestic arrangements. These made transportation to adistance of two or three miles easier than foot travel a distance of halfa mile, and enabled the merchant and professional man, the mechanicand the common laborer, to have their homes more remote from theirrespective places of employment. The families of merchants left theoften inconvenient and undesirable quarters over the stores for moresp

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