Hassam’s New York-Broad Street
Above are pictures of modern day Broad Street.
Hassam’s Original Painting.
There are quite a few differences between my photo and Hassam’s painting. The most obvious being the angle and perspective differences. In Hassam’s painting, he was probably perched in a building so as to create the omniscient feeling of being able to watch the activities below. I was unable to do that so my photo is from the perspective of one the people on the street in the painting. It was also difficult to mimic the distance from which the original was made due to various lights and vans obstructing the view.Now the NYSE is pimped out with American flags, which now cover the columns, in commemoration of September 11th. But i was able to reconstruct the image of both the NYSE and Federal Hall as well as the skyline, although that has gotten a little taller in the past century. The whole area of Wall Street has an old world air because many of the original structures remain, however, in my photo all of the buildings, except the NYSE and Federal Hall, are newly constructed and more modern.
Mikaela Murph
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Cultural Map
"The Original Topography of Manhattan Island from the Battery to 155th Street" From Report on the Social Statistics of Cities, Compiled by George E. Waring, Jr., United States. Census Office, Part I, 1886. (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas-Austin)
