Bull St. from Madison Square
1860/80
Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Dimensions
Each image: 7.7 × 7.7 cm (3 1/16 × 3 1/16 in.); Card: 8.7 × 17.6 cm (3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
stereograph (albumen)
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
145927
Art Historical Context
**Bull St. from Madison Square** *J. N. Wilson, 1860/80* Albumen print stereograph; Art Institute of Chicago, and Media Department Step back into mid-19th-century New City with J. N. Wilson's *Bull St. from Madison Square a delightful albumen print stereograph around 1860-1880. This compact card-mounted image—measuring just 7.7 × 7.7 cm per view—presents twin photographs of a street scene viewed from the elegant Madison Square area, a fashionable hub amid the city's explosive growth. Viewed through a handheld stereoscope, the paired images merge into a vivid three-dimensional tableau, i...