Title: King's Views of New York
Author: Moses King
Publisher: Arno Press, 1977
Text by Moses King; approximately 350 pages, black and white illustrations
King's Views is an exhaustive photographic survey of landmarks and monuments in Manhattan and Brooklyn at the turn of the 19th century. This volume highlights two significant forces during this historical period: photography as a new way of seeing the world, and New York City as a place of hope and promise to a vast influx of immigrants. Complete with detailed captions describing the geography, surroundings, and brief history of the photographs - over 1,700 black and white aerial and street view images of private and public buildings, waterways and bridges, and parks and museums - collected over the course of twenty years, King's Views of New York is a charming and fascinating view of the city during a period of exponential growth.
