New York city skyline 1876-present

This image is from an article at UrbanPeek. It’s hard to imagine what the city was like in 1883, but the 1876 photo does help. In the oldest photo you can see the Hudson on the other side of Manhattan Island, but that has changed by 1932. You’ll note too that the Brooklyn Bridge was still under construction, and that there are ships’ masts in the bay. While steam-powered boats were rapidly taking over long-distance travel, at this date crossings were often by sail.

The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge is a pivotal event in The Gilded Hour.

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29. April 2015 by Gilded Hour research / resources

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My name is Rosina Lippi. I'm a former academic and tenured university professor,  writing full time since 2000. Under the pen name Sara Donati I am the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of a group of families living in upstate New York from about 1792-1825. A new series based on later generations of the same families was launched September 1, 2015 with The Gilded Hour. The next volume in the new series,  Where the Light Enters, was  released in 2019.

 

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