Search Results: Americana from Marilyn Braiterman Rare Books

Brown cloth with black corner ornaments and border for large gilt ornamental central lettering. Recased with perfectly matched new spine and new endpapers. Large label on front paste-down retained, reading "This Album is the Property of This Hotel…" A beautiful fresh copy.Pictorial lithograph title page and 19 lithograph plates, all signed "G.W. Averell & Co. del & print. N.Y.", facing pages of ads for New York merchants: wine importer, steamship lines, printers, tailors, tobacco and billiard table purveyors, shops selling Chinese and Japanese goods, and many others.Wonderful plates, each including several New York City scenes and characters: Jewish tailors on Chatham Street, Chinese opium den, immigrants at Castle Garden, park scenes, street vendors, Fulton Ferry, horse racing, boxing, theater, an African American and other ethnic types.