2-752-482 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Troy and Vicinity', 1874. 'In Oakwood Cemetery; Poestenkill Creek; City, from near Oakwood; Lumber District; State Street', New York State, USA. 'Troy is a city of some fifty thousand inhabitants, situated at the mouth of Poestenkill Creek, six miles above Albany, and a hundred and fifty-one miles above New York - an active, enterprising, and bustling city'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]