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On the Job in 1874

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NYC arch lonesome cop

This post really doesn’t have anything to do with anything–it is just an interesting image of a newly constructed building capturing a sense of  its solemn activity ornamented in heaviness, intersected by one guy (perhaps a watchman) who is standing there at the intersection of Nothing & Everything.  [Source: New York Sketchbook of Architecture, James Osgood, NY, 1874.]

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