Satin badge: "The Completion of the Croton Aqueduct Celebrated, New York, October 14, 1842

Publisher Waterman Lilly Ormsby American

1842

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This printed ribbon celebrates the completion of New York's Croton water system which provided nineteenth-century Manhattan residents with a much needed supply of healthy and abundant water, piped by gravity forty-one miles from Westchester. At top an image shows an aqueduct, New York's City Hall, and a fountain, with emblematic figures of a Native American and an engineer flanking a shield topped with an eagle. Text below details the history of the system's conception and construction between 1837 and 1843.

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Title: Satin badge: "The Completion of the Croton Aqueduct Celebrated, New York, October 14, 1842
Publisher: Waterman Lilly Ormsby (American, Hampton, Connecticut 1809–1883 Brooklyn, New York)
Published in: New York
Date: 1842
Medium: Etching and engraving on silk or satin ribbon
Dimensions: 7 3/4 × 2 15/16 in. (19.7 × 7.5 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
Credit Line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954
Object Number: 54.90.1624
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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