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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WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1819. View of Westminster Abbey and adjacent buildings as they appeared prior to the disastrous fire of 1834. Aquatint, 1819, by Rudolph Ackermann

WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1819.
View of Westminster Abbey and adjacent buildings as they appeared prior to the disastrous fire of 1834. Aquatint, 1819, by Rudolph Ackermann

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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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