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An 1848 daguerreotype of a stately Manhattan home is expected to go for $50,000 to $70,000 when it is auctioned off at Sotheby’s. It’s believed to be one of the earliest photographic views of New York City and shows the hilltop house with a vast lawn on what is now Manhattan’s Upper West Side. (AP Photo/Sotheby’s / March 24, 2009)
A street shown in front of the house is believed to be the old Bloomingdale Road. Early city directories refer to it as a continuation of Broadway.
