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Original – Bird's eye panoramic view print of Manhattan in 1873. The Brooklyn Bridge was under construction from 1870 until 1883.
Edit 1 – Blank lines removed.
Edit 2 – Blank lines removed and crop.
Alternative 1 (LoC) - Include all aspects of original lithograph, approximately 2.5 times the resolution, and better colours. This is also more reflective of the original state of the artwork, which had a generous border as part of the image, although it wasn't quite evenly centred, so I did crop a bit. I find that for printing, a generous crop is usually best, since if you can't recrop it to fit the paper, you usually end up with some ugly white areas. Anyway, point is, if you prefer a different crop, please upload as its own image and use the {{Image extracted}} template.
Reason
Has EV, good image, already achieved Featured picture status in Commons and in the German and Turkish Wikipedia.
Articles in which this image appears
Manhattan, New York City, (George Schlegel for the new image)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Others
Creator
Geo. Schlegel lithographers, N.Y.
You are right, I had missed the text at the bottom. --WingtipvorteX PTT 18:50, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose original/edits of original http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/pga.04129/ shows that context has been lost. Engravings and lithographs of this period had a border and text; we shouldn't mangle them when we have a choice. A cropped version may be suitable in some uses, but shouldn't be the FP choice, or the default choice. Also, that scan has better colours, and, I think, a lot more resolution. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:03, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm doing a restoration of the LoC image. It should be up by tonight, as it's about 4/5ths done. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:34, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh.. thank you Adam Cuerden! :) Mediran (tc) 10:13, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. I really hope you don't mind. It's just when I see a really featureable image, but one that could be a little better... I feel compelled to make sure it's featured =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:25, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:George Schlegel - George Degen - New York 1873.jpg -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:44, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]