This is a view from Fort Hamilton on the west shore of Long Island across the Narrows and upper New York harbor. Fort Hamilton, Fort Lafayette and Fort Richmond (later renamed Fort Wadsworth) helped to protect New York against enemy attack. The scene of this view now includes the site of the Verrazono-Narrows Bridge. This watercolor is attributed to Fammy Palmer solely on the basis of her rendition of the study published by Currier and Ives in 1861.

This is a view across the East River from Manhattan Island. The steamboat Sylvan Grove, which was built in 1858, ran from Peck's Slip, New York City, to Harlem until 1882.

This is a view of the Hudson River north from Trophy Point at the Unied States Military Academy. Constitution Island is at the right. This may be the original view from which the lithograph (11 x 15 3/8) was taken of The Hudson, from West Point, published by Currier and Ives in 1862 and cited as drawn by F.F. Palmer. A copy is in the Print Room, NYHS. On the reverse are pencil sketches of the remains of the famous West Point Chain of the American Revolution exhibited at the Academy.

Sunnyside, home of the famous American author Washington Irving (1783-1859), was originally a small seventeenth-century Dutch farmhouse on the shore of the Hudson River, occupied by Wolfert Ecker and deigned by Irving as "Wolfert's Roost." Subsequent to the American Revolution, it was occupied by Jacob Van Tassel; in 1835 it was purchased by Irving, who had the house reconstructed into what he called a delightful "little nookery" with the assistance of the English artist, George Harvey (q.v.).

New York City's 14th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues still had the quiet charm of a country village when Miller sketched this watercolor of the Spingler house with its delicate curving entrance stairway. The property, consisting of twenty-two acres at what is now 13th to 16th streets between Fourth and Sixth avenues, had been purchased in 1788 by Christopher Henry Spingler (1747-1814). He occupied the house until he erected a new one on "the hill" to the east.

The Astor Library on Lafayette Place (now Lafayette Street) was erected between 1850 and 1853 and was opened to the public in 1854. The building was enlarged in 1859 and again in 1881 by John Jacob Astor. In 1895 the Astor Library joined with the Lenox Library and the Tilden Foundation to form the present New York Public Library. This view is a study of the interior of the old building.

This mezzotint was part of a series of 90 and this is a rejected proof that the artist obliterated with pastel. The foreground shows the roof and girders of McPherson's studio building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Over the top of the building is seen the East River and part of the skyline of Manhattan. The artist is a realist whose paintings, drawings, and prints are involved with the interplay of artificial and natural light. His subjects are often scenes of New York City.