First poor house (City Hall Park)
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805097
Item data
Title
First poor house (City Hall Park)
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
New York City -- Homes (Institutional)
Names
Karst, John, 1836-1922 (Wood engraver)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1885
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC NEW YC-Hom
Subjects
Institutional care -- New York (State) -- New York
Almshouses -- New York (State) -- New York
Genres
Notes
Content: Text in part: "This scheme, however, was not carried into effect until 1734, when a commodious house was erected on the commons, in the rear of the present City Hall, and on the site of the future 'old Alms House' …"
Source Note: Our police protectors : history of the New York police from the earliest period to the present time. (New York : A. Costello, 1885) Costello, Augustine E., Author.
Physical Description
Wood engravings
Extent: sheet 14 x 13 cm (5 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17095661
Barcode: 33333159160353
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8d1b9810-c55d-012f-74af-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1885
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MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "First poor house (City Hall Park)" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1885. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8d1b9810-c55d-012f-74af-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1885). First poor house (City Hall Park) Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8d1b9810-c55d-012f-74af-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "First poor house (City Hall Park)" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 18, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8d1b9810-c55d-012f-74af-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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