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Related Tagged Art Croton Water Celebration Published March 2, 2012 March 30, 2013
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Croton Water Celebration 1842 §2
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Croton Water Celebration 1842 §0
— Croton Water Celebration 1842. Lithograph, 9 3/4 x 13 inches. New York: J.F. Atwill, 1842 . This copy is being auctioned at Swann Auction Galleries . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend…
Croton Water Celebration 1842 §1
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Croton Water Celebration medal by Robert Lovett, Sr. Courtesy of John Kraljevich Americana. Here’s a fine example of the medal produced for the Croton Water Celebration, when what we now call the Old Croton Aqueduct opened to public use…
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The 1842 Croton Water Celebration Medal §0
— Croton Water Celebration medal by Robert Lovett, Sr. Courtesy of John Kraljevich Americana. Here’s a fine example of the medal produced for the Croton Water Celebration, when what we now call the Old Croton Aqueduct opened to public use…
The 1842 Croton Water Celebration Medal §11
— LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Croton Water Celebration George Pope Morris Robert Lovett Thomas Jefferson Published January 23, 2015 January 24, 2015
The 1842 Croton Water Celebration Medal §1
— 14, 1842. This is currently being offered by John Kraljevich , a leading expert in American historical medals, coins, paper money and related Americana, who has graciously allowed us to share his images. The Croton Water Celebration medal was
The 1842 Croton Water Celebration Medal §7
— silver examples were individually engraved for the 17 New York City Alderman in office at the time of the celebration and various dignitaries, including poet George Pope Morris, author of the celebration’s “Croton Ode.” The example shown here is
The 1842 Croton Water Celebration Medal §8
— …Croton Water Celebration medal by Robert Lovett, Sr. Courtesy
The 1842 Croton Water Celebration Medal §9
— of John Kraljevich Americana. See this letter by Lovett to Thomas Jefferson and The Croton Aqueduct Completion Medal by Dave Baldwin. Token and Medal Society Journal , September/October 2013, vol. 53, no. 5. ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window)
The 1842 Croton Water Celebration Medal §4
— up his own engraving business, specializing in dies and seals. His early work can’t be identified because it was unsigned, but one significant commission has been discovered by Lovett expert and collector David Baldwin. “Correspondence between Thomas
The 1842 Croton Water Celebration Medal §3
— service during the War of 1812 he apprenticed in the shop of master stone seal engraver Thomas Brown. Advertisement from Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser , [Philadelphia], January 15, 1818. By 1816 he had married and moved to Philadelphia to set
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Croton Water Celebration Broadside 1842 §1
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America
[Newspaper] Alexandria Gazette, October 17, 1842. Coverage of the Croton Water Celebration in New York City on October 14, 1842. The celebration marked the arrival of clean water from the Croton River via the 41-mile Old Croton Aqueduct designed…
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[Newspaper] Morning Star, Limerick, Maine, November 23, 1842. Poetry celebrating the Croton Aqueduct. Even newspapers in rural Maine covered the Croton water celebration, a month after the event. Coverage appeared as far away as Honolulu, in the Polynesian newspaper, showing…
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daughters have reason to be proud of her now.” Friday 14. tenth. October. 1842. A beautifull day for the celebration of the Croton water Works. Every one was in commotion to.day, the whole city were on the move; and…
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October 14 1842 Thousands To Celebrate The Croton Dam And Fresh Water For Nyc §1
— daughters have reason to be proud of her now.” Friday 14. tenth. October. 1842. A beautifull day for the celebration of the Croton water Works. Every one was in commotion to.day, the whole city were on the move; and…
October 14 1842 Thousands To Celebrate The Croton Dam And Fresh Water For Nyc §0
— A first-person account of the Croton Water Celebration from the diary of Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck. “It was a happy day for New.York, as now she stands a “queen city” with her beautifull Fountains, and pure transparent water, her…
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[Newspaper] Richmond Enquirer, October 21, 1842. Published a celebratory ode to the Croton Aqueduct following the water celebration in New York City. The poem praised the engineering feat that brought clean water from the Croton River to Manhattan. The fact…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Common Council of the City, on the 14th inst, in celebrating the introduction of the Croton
water in the City of New York, according to their polite invitation, dated 26th September last.
New York, &th October, 1842.
From the Consul…
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A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §637
— …Common Council of the City, on the 14th inst, in celebrating the introduction of the Croton
water in the City of New York, according to their polite invitation, dated 26th September last.
New York, &th October, 1842.
From the Consul…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §659
— DA VIES, SMITH, WEST, &c.,
Committee, of Arrangements Croton Celebration, Sfc
GENTLEMEN :
In answer to your communication, dated September, 22d, 1842, the New York and
Sandy Hook Pilots would be gratified to have a situation in line assigned them at…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §644
— …Croton water into the City of New York, was this received.
day
Circumstances will prevent my accompanying the procession. Accept my thanks for your
attention in giving- the invitation.
Respectfully,
New York, October Wth, 1842. WILLIAM W. FOX.
244 CELEBRATION…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §638
— …238 CELEBRATION OP THE
From the Consul of the Two Sicilies.
New- York, October 6th, 1842.
To the Committee of the Croton Water. SIRS:
The Consul General of the Two Sicilies, in acknowledging the receipt of the polite invitation of…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §658
— …October 4, 1842.
CELEBRATION OF THE
From the Chairman of the New York Pilots.
New York, October 13th, 1842. To Messrs. DA VIES, SMITH, WEST, &c.,
Committee, of Arrangements Croton Celebration, Sfc
GENTLEMEN :
In answer to your communication, dated September…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §645
— …New York, 10th October, 1842. To CLARKSON CROLIUS, Esq., Chairman Committee of Invitation )
for Croton Aqueduct celebration. $
Sin:
I received the invitation of Committee to attend the celebration of the introduction
of the Croton water into the city, and hope…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §616
— …THE CELEBRATION
OP THB
FOURTEENTH OCTOBER, 1842.
THE CELEBRATION
FOURTEENTH OCTOBER, 1842
IT was natural that so great an event as the completion of the Croton Aqueduct,
should be deemed by the citizens, at whose cost and through whose constancy…
A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct §646
— …Sing Sing, October llth, 1842. GENTLEMEN :
The undersigned acknowledges the honor of an invitation of the Common Council
" introduction of the
of the city of New York, to join with them in celebrating the
Croton water into the city of…
Robert H. Morris (Mayor of New York City), Oct 14, 1842 — King's Memoir of the Croton Aqueduct (1843)
Mayor Morris offered a toast, which he prefaced with some apppropriate remarks returning in behalf of the citizens their thanks to the Executive of the State, and to the vast number of persons from various places who had come among…
George Pope Morris, Poems (1853), Project Gutenberg
[Poem] "The Croton Ode" by George Pope Morris (1842). Written at the request of the Corporation of the City of New York and performed October 14, 1842 at the Croton Water Celebration. Sung in front of the Park Fountain by…
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…2.99 km/h; 2.73 ft/s]) to reach Manhattan. [ 7 ] The Croton Aqueduct opened to public use with great fanfare on October 14, 1842. The day-long celebration culminated in a fountain of water that spouted to a
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reconstruction. Did Van Cortlandt actually attend? What did he really think of the great event? Unfortunately his published correspondence contains just three letters from 1842 and none of them mention the Croton Water Celebration. Memoirs of John
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John Quincy Adams Sends His Regrets §14
— reconstruction. Did Van Cortlandt actually attend? What did he really think of the great event? Unfortunately his published correspondence contains just three letters from 1842 and none of them mention the Croton Water Celebration. Memoirs of John
John Quincy Adams Sends His Regrets §0
— John Quincy Adams On October 11, 1842 former President John Quincy Adams realized he had neglected to respond— several times —to an invitation to be an honored guest at the Croton Water Celebration. In his diary he wrote, “. . . on turning…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
…Croton Water Celebration. 1842, litho- graphed music title for "The Croton Ode" Courtesy The J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum of the City of New York. 29.100.2036 Charles King's A Memoir of the Construction, Cost and Capacity of…
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— …Croton Water Celebration. 1842, litho- graphed music title for "The Croton Ode" Courtesy The J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum of the City of New York. 29.100.2036 Charles King's A Memoir of the Construction, Cost and Capacity of…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §47
— …Atwili, publisher, New York, Croton Water Celebration (City Hall Park), 1842. In pencil: "Aster House — Park Theatre/Croton Water Celebration, 1842" Lithographed music title for "The Croton Ode"; SVtx 12V'' inches The J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum of the City…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §40
— …The many commercial listings of private plumbers wishing to obtain work bringing Croton water into residences (for example in several 1842 issues of the New York The Evening Post) bring to mind a number of issues, not the least of…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §48
— …s A Memoir of the Construction, Costs and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct, Compiled from Official Documents, Together with Account of the Civic Celebration of the 14th October, 1842 (New York, 1843) The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Gift of…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §42
— …The Evening Post, New York, October 15, 1842. Fitzsimons, Neal, ed. and introd. The Reminiscences of John B. Jervis: Engineer of the Old Croton. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1971. Jervis, John B. Description of the Croton Aqueduct from the Dam…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §43
— …the Need Water Woria Money of 1774 Wooc^engraved illustration in Charles King's A Memoir of the construction, costs and capacity of the Croton Aqueduct, compiled from official documents, together with an account of the civic celebration of the…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §41
— …THE OLD CROTON aqueduct LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION Blake, Nelson Manfred. Water for Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the United States. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1956. Cooper, Linda Gilbert, ed. A Walkers to the Old…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw §35
— …A notice in The Evening Post, October 15, 1842, for Atwill figure 47: F. Jones, Thomas Dusenbury, Plumber ... Croton Water, color lithograph advertisement Courtesy The J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum of the City of New York. 29.100.2484a Hardin…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
for distributing the water in the city, will make the total
cost of supplying the city of New- York with water about
12,000,000 dollars*
The water was introduced into the Distributing Reservoir
on the 4th of July, 1842…
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…1838 1842 1842 Panic of 1837, followed by fiveyear depression New York’s Croton Aqueduct opens October 14. Daylong celebration culminates in fifty-foot shower of water spouting from Croton Fountain in City Hall Park. Attending the celebration are President…
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croton_waterworks_raw §4
— …1838 1842 1842 Panic of 1837, followed by fiveyear depression New York’s Croton Aqueduct opens October 14. Daylong celebration culminates in fifty-foot shower of water spouting from Croton Fountain in City Hall Park. Attending the celebration are President…
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— …Amidst great fanfare, water finally began to flow into the Murray Hill Reservoir on July 4, 1842. A massive public celebration for the completion of the Croton Waterworks followed on October 14. These celebrations notwithstanding, the opening of the Waterworks…
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— …1838 1842 1842 Panic of 1837, followed by fiveyear depression New York’s Croton Aqueduct opens October 14. Daylong celebration culminates in fifty-foot shower of water spouting from Croton Fountain in City Hall Park. Attending the celebration are President…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…On March 3 of that year the Westchester
THE CROTON
WATER
CELEBRATION,
1842.
land-owners held a meeting at Christopher Walton's store, at Fordham Corners, and appointed a committee to memorialize the legislature against the proposed low bridge, and…
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History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1133
— …On March 3 of that year the Westchester
THE CROTON
WATER
CELEBRATION,
1842.
land-owners held a meeting at Christopher Walton's store, at Fordham Corners, and appointed a committee to memorialize the legislature against the proposed low bridge, and…
History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 §1137
— …1842,
and this wish was realized. At five o'clock on the morning of the
22d of June, water to the depth of eighteen inches was admitted into
the aqueduct from Croton Lake. A boat called the 4k Croton Maid…
Samuel Stevens (President of the Board of State Water Commissioners), Oct 14, 1842 — King's Memoir of the Croton Aqueduct (1843)
…In delivering over the Croton water, and the works on this island, I have been requested by your Committee to make such remarks as the occasion may suggest. Prom the earliest period of the history of our city, the attainment…
John L. Lawrence (President of the Croton Aqueduct Board), Oct 14, 1842 — King's Memoir of the Croton Aqueduct (1843)
…President, and Gentlemen of the Board of Water Commissioners : In receiving, with my associates of the Croton Aqueduct Board, the custody of the work committed to us, I take the occasion to convey to you, the thanks of your fellowcitizens…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…The 14th of October following was set apart as a day for the celebration of the introduction of the water into the city : and it was an occasion of unrestrained enthusiasm and joy. Multitudes came in from the country around…
William H. Seward (Governor of the State of New York), Oct 14, 1842 — King's Memoir of the Croton Aqueduct (1843)
…Could we imagine a spectacle more degrading than the dismembered work lying in fragments throughout its length of forty miles, from the Croton "Lake to the confines of the city ? Who could then be found " so poor to do it…