A moment in time when Manhattan was flat and had a strange likeness to Burri’s 1984-89 “Cretto di Gibellina” (photograph below).
The 1883 engraving by Captain Willard Glazier comes from his book “Peculiarities of American Cities“.

Gibellina Vecchia – Il cretto di Burri
Photograph by Vito Candela
From: http://www.fotocommunity.it/pc/pc/display/15018532
Via: Mika Savela
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