Keywords: Attributed to Silas A. Holmes (American - Broadway Looking North from Between Grand and Broome Streets - Google Art Project.jpg is not from the Getty Museum or the Google Art Project On the right of the picture is the extant E V Haughwout Building occupying the northeast corner of the intersection of Broadway and Broome Street and at left is 495 Broadway which is north of Broome Street so the camera must be at Broome Street rather than south of it Haughwout opened in 1857 LPC 11 and 42 and by late 1859 495 Broadway had been replaced by a new cast-iron building for Grover and Baker Gobright 113 SA 303 and this image with a similar view so the picture must have been taken in 1857 1858 or 1859 Also of dating interest are the signs on the side and front of 501 for Stodart Morris established in 1856 Clinkscale 360 col 1 ; the photo-related business of E Anthony had taken over 501 by May 1860 Gobright 145 The St Nicholas Hotel comprises both the white building c and the dark building just north right of it Sources plus two helpful maps are Clinkscale Martha N http //books google com/books id iqK3FPhQm5gC Makers of the Piano Vol 2 New York Oxford University Press 1999 Gobright John Christopher Pratt http //books google com/books id jBo1AQAAMAAJ The Union Sketch-book New York Pudney Russell 1860 LPC http //www nyc gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/SoHo_HD pdf SoHo - Cast Iron Historic District Designation Report New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission August 14 1973 SA The Growth of the Sewing-machine Business Scientific American New Series Vol 1 No 19 New York November 5 1859 online at http //ebooks library cornell edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx c scia;cc scia;idno scia1001-19;node scia1001-19 3A1;view image;seq 307;size 200;page root Cornell University Library Perris William Maps of the City of New York Vol 2 Plate 30 William Perris 1852 at The New York Public Library Digital Collections http //digitalgallery nypl org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail cfm trg 1 strucID 673677 imageID 1269998 parent_id 673647 snum s notword d c f k 4 sScope sLevel sLabel sort total 105 num 0 imgs 60 pNum pos 33 Image ID 1269998 Perris William Map of the City of New York 3rd ed Vol 2 Plate 22 New York Perris Browne 1857 at The New York Public Library Digital Collections http //digitalgallery nypl org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail cfm trg 1 strucID 667150 imageID 1268310 total 130 num 20 parent_id 666056 s notword d c f k 1 sScope sLevel sLabel lword lfield sort imgs 20 pos 24 snum e w Image ID 1268310 1820 1886 1820 - 1886 6791139 Attributed to Silas A Holmes American American 1820 - 1886 /collection/the-j-paul-getty-museum/artwork/broadway-looking-north-from-between-grand-and-broome-streets-attributed-to-silas-a-holmes-american-1820-1886/6577761/ Attributed to Silas A Holmes American 1820 - 1886 photographer /artist/silas-a-holmes/6565886/ 6565886 /collection/the-j-paul-getty-museum/ The J Paul Getty Museum 343005 http //www getty edu/museum 3/11/2012 10 09 07 PM /collection/the-j-paul-getty-museum/artwork/broadway-looking-north-from-between-grand-and-broome-streets-attributed-to-silas-a-holmes-american-1820-1886/6577761/ 1853 about 1853 - 1855 Street Scenes St Nicholas Hotel Salted paper 292 6577761 True 1855 3/25/2012 5 16 55 AM lido getty edu-gm-obj44974 http //www getty edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails artobj 44974 http //www getty edu/legal/copyright html Print 1850 1860 Not on display w391 x h292 cm about 1853 - 1855 False 1 32642487046632 Object broadway-looking-north-from-between-grand-and-broome-streets-attributed-to-silas-a-holmes-american-1820-1886 Broadway Looking North from Between Grand and Broome Streets b 391 Salted paper Street Scenes St Nicholas Hotel http //www getty edu/legal/copyright html special url_id lwH-i5Fp41JCMw PD-old-100-1923 1886 Google Art Project works by Silas A Holmes attributed Broadway in the 19th century Grand Street Manhattan Broome Street Manhattan New York City in the 1850s Photographs in the Getty Center St Nicholas Hotel 1850s photographs |