This view of Brooklyn Ferry shows Fulton market at the left, rows of shops and warehouses on the right, and in the center, the "Nassau," the first steamboat to commute between Brooklyn and New York.

This transfer print of the Passaic Falls is based on a drawing by Alexander Robertson (1768-1841).

The New York Insane Asylum, also known as Bloomingdale Asylum, opened in 1821 on the present site of Columbia University. Columbia purchased the property in 1894 when the Asylum moved to White Plains.

This plate is printed with a view of the nation’s first luxury hotel, the City Hotel (built 1794, demolished 1849), located at 115 Broadway in New York City. By the 1820s the downtown commercial district was well on its way to becoming a separate male preserve—virtually empty of respectable families, and scrupulously avoided by respectable women except for shopping expeditions to lower Broadway or visits to the Ladies’ Dining Room of the City Hotel. Hotel dining rooms were a progressive public venue for ladies, who generally were not welcome in restaurants, particularly unescorted, until the late nineteenth century. Contemporary writers emphasized the egalitarian nature of the hotel tables. As writer Eliza Leslie observed, “Nobody ‘sits below the salt.’ And every one has an equal chance of obtaining a share of the nicest articles on the table.” The ladies' dining room of the City Hotel also offered a venue for young women to learn the latest dance steps or watch concerts by foreign artists. By the early twentieth century hotelkeepers still barred unaccompanied women in certain dining rooms causing militant suffragettes to protest the inequality.

The dramatic Table Rock remained a popular tourist attraction at Niagara Falls until it cracked and fell into the depths below in 1850. This view is based on Russian artist Paul Svinin's watercolor, "Niagara Falls, Table Rock by Moonlight," published in "Picturesque Voyage in North America" (1818).

This plate honors Governor De Witt Clinton for his invaluable assistance in the building of the Erie Canal.

The Park Theatre was built on Park Row in 1797-98. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the Park Theatre dominated dramatic activity in New York City and offered dramatic fare for patrons of all classes.