Item Information![New York in 1855: View from the Latting Tower, looking southward from 42nd Street. The corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street [in the left foreground] gives an idea of the unimproved character of the land in this vicinity as late as 1855.](https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/files/original/httpwwwcolumbiaeduculibrariesinsideworkingdnycgalleryslidesldpd_5655330_000_00000049_b7d7b7c1b2.jpg "New York in 1855: View from the Latting Tower, looking southward from 42nd Street. The corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street [in the left foreground] gives an idea of the unimproved character of the land in this vicinity as late as 1855.") Dublin CoreTitleNew York in 1855: View from the Latting Tower, looking southward from 42nd Street. The corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street [in the left foreground] gives an idea of the unimproved character of the land in this vicinity as late as 1855.
SubjectNew York (N.Y.)--History--1865-1898
Latting Tower
CreatorSmith, B.F. Jr.
SourceFifth Avenue Bank of New York. Fifth Avenue; glances at the vicissitudes and romance of a world-renowned thoroughfare New York : Printed for the Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, 1915. p. [41]
Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2006 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_5655330_000/pages/ldpd_5655330_000_00000049.html
Date1855 [?]
Languageeng
Identifierldpd_dnyc_5655330_000_00000049
Additional Item MetadataSpatial CoverageFifth Avenue, from 40th to 42nd Streets
Manhattan
ProvenancePercy R. Pyne, 2nd
MODSKey Date1855
Type of Datequestionable
Repository NameNo repository
Language of Catalogingeng
Digital Originrd
CitationSmith, B.F. Jr., “New York in 1855: View from the Latting Tower, looking southward from 42nd Street. The corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street [in the left foreground] gives an idea of the unimproved character of the land in this vicinity as late as 1855.,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed December 18, 2025, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/items/show/4033. |