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New York then and now : 83 Manhattan sites photographed in the past and in the present / captions by Edward B. Watson ; contemporary photographs by Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.
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New York then and now : 83 Manhattan sites photographed in the past and in the present / captions by Edward B. Watson ; contemporary photographs by Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.

by Edward Watson, Edmund Gillon

This volume presents a photographic comparison of eighty-three Manhattan sites, juxtaposing historical images from 1875 to 1925 with photographs of the same locations taken from identical angles in 1976.

Accession 31525 ISBN 0486233618 Publisher Dover Publications, Inc.
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