Lake And Terrace From The Ramble: New York City Central Park NY E&HT Anthony Stereoview 1868.
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Central Park, New York
#7166, ‘68, ‘69 (1868, 1869)
Lake and Terrace from the Ramble.
Published by E & H T Anthony & Co
Emporium of American and Foreign Stereoscopic views, chromos and albums
591 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan hotel New York
About the photographers:
E. & H. T. Anthony & Company was the largest supplier and distributors of photographic supplies in the United States during the 19th century.[1]
Company founder Edward Anthony, a Columbia College trained civil engineer who had studied photography with Samuel F.B Morse, started in the photography business in 1842 by opening a daguerreotype gallery in New York. Five years later he opened a separate shop devoted exclusively to photographic supplies and as sales grew rapidly ceased operations in his daguerrotypist gallery. In 1850 Anthony began the production of daguerreotype cases, camera boxes, and photographic chemicals. His brother, Henry T. Anthony, joined the business two years later in 1852.
The Anthony brothers' factory was located at New York City's Harlem Railroad Depot occupying 1/4 of the building by 1854 and advertised that their company was the largest manufacturer and distributor of photographic apparatus and material in the world.
In 1859 Anthony added stereoscopic view cards, photographic albums, and gallery furniture and backdrops to the company's product lines. The Anthony company also maintained a close business relationship with famed American photographer and portraitist Mathew Brady.
This stereoview is dated 1868 - 1869