PROCEEDINGS 



STATEN ISLAND ASSOCIATION 



OF 



ARTS AND SCIENCES 



Vol. V October 1914-MAY 191 5 Parts III and IV 



A Collection of Old Views of Staten Island Scenery^ 



William T. Davis 



Last summer it was my good fortune to secure for the Associa- 

 tion's collection eighteen old views of Staten Island ; also two of 

 the Highlands of Navesink, New Jersey, and one of the upper 

 bay of New York. Six of these are steel engravings and the 

 others woodcuts. 



Three of the engravings represent outlooks from Pavilion Hill, 

 viz, " New York from Staten Island," showing the Quarantine 

 buildings in the foreground, the shipping, and the city in the 

 distance. This is one of the illustrations which may be found 

 included in The Picturesque Beauties of the Hudson River and 

 Its Vicinity, etc., published by J. Disturnell, 156 Broadway, New 

 York, in or about 1835-36, from which it was evidently ab- 

 stracted. " The Narrows, from the Pavilion, near the Quaran- 

 tine Ground, Staten Island," is another from the same publica- 

 tion as the preceding. The third one is from the same point of 

 view as the latter, and on it is a written memorandum " The 

 Narrows from Staten Island, published in 'Amer. Scenery' in 



1 Presented at the meeting of the Association October 17, 1914. 



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