'Washington, Madison, and Union Squares', 1874. Pedestrians and carriages in the squares of New York City, USA. 'Union Square is at the bend of the main division of Broadway...Madison Square...with great hotels and business places on its western side, and sedate, aristocratic, brown-stone houses on its other confines. It is at a point that is considered the social centre of the city'. At centre right is the Worth Monument. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]