A. MAJOR. Bird’s-eye View of the Great Suspension Bridge connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn. 1883 natural history 1628–1679)De Cust van Westindien

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a dense Latin text discusses creation

Purple Grackle or Common Crow Blackbird

While Besler’s work is obviously motivated by a scientific impulse to document and describe a remarkable collection of species

Though much of his visual material reflected the Depression era

A. MAJOR. Bird’s-eye View of the Great Suspension Bridge connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn. 1883 natural history 1628–1679)De Cust van WestindienA. MAJOR. Birds eye View of the Great Suspension Bridge connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn Lithograph with original hand color Washington: Franklin Square Lithographic Company in the office of the Librarian of Congress, for the Judge Publishing Company, 1883 21 18 x 37 18 visible, 29 34 x 45 34 framed Fine large view of the Brooklyn Bridge looking southeast towards Brooklyn, celebrating the completion of the Bridge on May 24, 1883. The