Villas on the Hudson

Residence of S. D. Babcock, Riverdale (1860, photolithograph) and Architectural Plan (1860, lithograph). From Villas on the Hudson - a collection of photo-lithographs of thirty-one country residences (1860). Part of the collection Streetscape and Townscape of Metropolitan New York City, 1860-1942 at the NYPL Digital Gallery. "...Several hundred prints and photographs offering the complete content of a wide range of selected image collections and illustrated monographs: Hudson River mansions, including Washington Irving's home and vicinity in the 1860s; street views by Alice Austen from 1896; a panorama of Fifth Avenue from 1911, and more."