Bridges Gallery

Scene from the Chushingura, the Japanese tale of the 47 Ronin (or 47 Samurai). Print shows a person in a sedan chair leaving a residential compound and being stopped by a samurai warrior. Woodblock print by Sadahide Utagawa, 1830-1844

JAPAN: CHUSHINGURA.
Scene from the Chushingura, the Japanese tale of the 47 Ronin (or 47 Samurai). Print shows a person in a sedan chair leaving a residential compound and being stopped by a samurai warrior. Woodblock print by Sadahide Utagawa, 1830-1844

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PARIS: PONT NOTRE-DAME. A festival of sailors games on the Seine at Pont Notre-Dame, Paris, France. Oil on canvas, 1751, by Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Raguenet

PARIS: PONT NOTRE-DAME.
A festival of sailors games on the Seine at Pont Notre-Dame, Paris, France. Oil on canvas, 1751, by Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Raguenet

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UNITED NATIONS: SITE, 1946. Looking north along First Avenue from Tudor City at 41st Street, on the site of the future headquarters of the United Nations, December 1946. The Queensborough Bridge is in the background

UNITED NATIONS: SITE, 1946.
Looking north along First Avenue from Tudor City at 41st Street, on the site of the future headquarters of the United Nations, December 1946. The Queensborough Bridge is in the background

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