Catalog ID: History H-1983.62.5

Object Name: Print

Title: Jamestown, Chautauqua County New York, Looking North East

Object Type: Art

Date Made: c1882

Place Made: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Usa

Artist: Herman Brosius

Artist: Albert F. Poole

Lithographer: Beck & Pauli

Publisher: J. J. Stoner

Materials: paper, rag; cardboard; lithographed

Measurements: 27 x 41 3/8 in.

Physical Description: Colored lithograph of Jamestown, New York. Bird's eye view. Chautaqua Lake outlet snakes around edge of village. Inset photos of various businesses, mills, and furniture factories on top, bottom and left borders. 36 keyed landmarks along bottom border. Brilliantly colored in dark green landscape, light yellow roads, peach and white colored buildings. Pasted on rag paper with cardboard backing.

Publications: Scherer, John L. and Schein, Richard, 1991, A Bird's Eye View of New York: Views and Viewmakers of New York State 1836-1892 (published illustration: p. 14, fig. 9)

Source: The Print Shop