King’s Photographic Views of New York/A Souvenir Companion to King’s Handbook of New York City.

King’s Photographic Views of New York/A Souvenir Companion to King’s Handbook of New York City.

Boston, Ma.:

Moses King

[1895].

The general layout of this volume is an advertisement on the left-hand page, and a photograph of the building relating to the advertisement on the right-hand page. There are photos of commercial and civic buildings and structures as well as those of charities, but the majority of the photos depict commercial buildings. The most interesting feature of the book is that it illustrates so many commercial buildings that never appeared in viewbooks. The purchase of this volume on the day before Christmas 56 years ago is what caused the curator to start collecting New York City material.

From the Collection of Mark D. Tomasko