Narrows on East River

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American Photographer · 1820–1886

> On fair days those passing over the [Broadway] Bridge would be called to attention by the bugle of a photographer, who hoped to profit by the pictures taken from a window on Broadway. This quote from an article about Manhattan's Broadway Bridge describes how Silas A. Holmes, a photographer who maintained a studio on Broadway, attracted the attention of people on the bridge. In an 1867 advertisem