People readily identify with antique views of their own region. The face of America has changed so vastly that it is fascinating to compare your town with what it looked like long ago, to see what's changed and what has not.
To Produce these illustrations, artists were dispatched to various locations throughout the world to draw what they observed "from nature". The drawings, along with narrative accounts were sent back to the publisher and engraving staff on the East Coast. where it was engraved on highly polished blocks of wood. This wood engraving took dozens of hours of skilled labor to produce. The wood engraving and body type were assembled, then finally printed and sold as the weekly newspaper.
William Bartlett's Antique Hand Colored American Views, 1837
Connecticut
#	Description	Price
1	Yale College (New Haven)	$80
2	The Gothic Church (New Haven)	$60
3	Bridge at Norwich	$50
Maine
4	East Port and Passamaquoddy Bay	$50
5	Desert Rock Light House	$80
Maryland
6	Battle Monument, Baltimore	$60
7	Viaduct on Baltimore and Washington Railroad	$60
8	View of Baltimore	$80
9	Washington's Monument, Baltimore	$60
Massachusetts
10	View from Mount Holyoke	$60
10.5	State Street, Boston	$80
11	Boston and Bunker Hill	$80
12	Boston from Dorchester Heights	$80
13	Faneuiel Hall, Boston	$80
14	Valley of the Connecticut (From Mount Holyoke)	$50
15	Faneuil Hall, from the water	$80
16	Mount Tom and the Connecticut River (By Creswick after Bartlett)	$50
17	Cemetery of Mount Auburn	$30
18	Northampton	$50
New Jersey
32	View of the Passaic Falls	$50
New York
33	Entrance to the Hudson Highlands, near Newburgh - vignette from title page of subscription series, and later used on title page of Vol.11 of bound volumes	$80
33.5	Scene Among the Islands on Lake George	$50
34	Niagara Falls from the Ferry	$60
35	View from West Point (Hudson River)	$80
36	Trenton Falls, View Down the Ravine (Adirondacks)	$60
37	The Outlet of Niagara River (Lake Ontario in the Distance)	$60
38	The Palisades (Hudson River)	$80
39	The Rapids Above the Falls of Niagara	$60
40	Saratoga Lake	$60
41	Colonade of Congress-Hall (Saratoga Springs)	$50
42	Albany	$60
43	Crow-Nest from Bull Hill (Hudson River)	$80
44	View Below Table Rock	$60
45	The Tomb of Kosciusko	$30
46	The Horse Shoe Fall, Niagara, with the Tower	$80
47	The Narrows From Staten Island	$80
48	View of the Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga	$40
49	View from Port Putnam (Hudson River)	$60
50	Niagara Falls (from near Clifton House)	$80
51	View from Hyde Park (Hudson River)	$80
52	Village of Sing-Sing (Hudson River)	$60
53	View from Ruggle's House, Newburgh (Hudson River)	$60
54	New York Bay (from the Telegraph Station)	$80
55	Peekskill Landing (Hudson River)	$80
56	Light House Near Caldwell's Landing	$80
57	Caldwell (Lake George)	$60
58	A Forest on Lake Ontario	$40
59	The Indian Falls, near Cold-Spring (opposite West Point)	$60
60	The Genesse Falls, Rochester	$50
61	The Ferry at Brooklyn, New York	$70
62	Rail-Road Scene, Little Falls (Valley of the Mohawk)	$50
63	Utica	$50
64	The Landing, on the American Side (Falls of Niagara)	$50
65	The Park, and City Hall, New York	$50
66	The Two Lakes and the Mountain House on the Catskills	$60
67	Trenton High Falls	$50
68	Lockport, Erie Canal	$60
69	Black Mountain (Lake George) - by Creswick after Bartlett	$60
70	View on the Erie Canal, near Little Falls	$60
71	Hudson Highlands (from Bull Hill)	$80
72	Villa on the Hudson, near Weehawken	$60
73	Ballston Springs	$40
74	The Narrows (from Fort Hamilton)	$80
75	Sabbath Day Point (Lake George)	$60
76	The Catterskill Falls (from below)	$60
77	The Catterskill Falls (from above the Ravine)	$60
78	Winter Scene on the Catterskills	$50
79	Roger's Slide, Lake George - by Creswick after Bartlett	$60
80	Niagara Falls (from the top of the ladder, on the American side)	$60
81	Little Falls (on the Mohawk) - by Creswick after Bartlett	$60
82	Undercliff Near Cold Spring (The Seat of General P. Morris)	$60
83	View of New York, from Weehawken	$50
84	Village of Little Falls (Mohawk River)	$50
85	Barhydt's Lake (near Saratoga)	$50
86	Sing Sing Prison and Tappan Sea	$80
87	The Narrows, Lake George	$60
88	View of Hudson City and the Catskill Mountains	$60
89	Village of Catskill	$60
90	Scene among the Highlands on Lake George	$60
91	Brock's Monument (from the American Side)	$50
92	View from Gowanus Heights, Brooklyn	$50
93	View on the Susquehanna (above Owego)	$50
94	Bridge on Glens Falls (on the Hudson)	$60
95	View from Mount Ida (near Troy)	$50
96	View from Glenmary Lawn (on the Owago)	$40
97	View near Anthony's Nose (Hudson Highlands)	$80
98	Chapel of Our Lady of Coldspring	$80
99	The Mountain House, on the Catskills	$80
Pennsylvania
100	The Descent into the Valley of Wyoming	$50
101	Columbia Bridge (on the Susquehanna)	$60
102	Wilkesbarre (Vale of Wyoming) - by Creswick after Bartlett	$50
103	Fairmont Gardens, with the Schuylkill Bridge (Philadelphia)	$80
104	View on the Susquehanna, at Liverpool	$60
105	The Exchange and Girard's Bank (Philadelphia)	$80
106	View of Northumberland (on the Susquehanna)	$50
107	Schuylkill Water Works (Philadelphia)	$80
108	The United States Bank, Philadelphia	$60
Virginia
109	Harper's Ferry (from the Potomac Side) (West Virginia)	$40
110	The Valley of the Shenandoah, from Jefferson's Rock (Harper's Ferry)(West Virginia)	$40
111	The Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon	$50
112	Washington's House, Mount Vernon	$60
113	Harper's Ferry (from the Blue Ridge)	$40
114	Natural Bridge, Virginia	$30
Ireland
115	Ballina (County Mayo)	$50
116	South-wall Lighthouse (with Howth hill in the distance)	$50
117	The Meeting of the Waters (Vale of Ovoca)	$50
118	Bray	$50
119	Glengariff	$50
120	Cove Harbour	$50
121	Ballyshannon	$50
122	Round Tower, De Glendalough	$50
123	Roserk Abby	$50
124	Scene from Cloonacartin Hill	$50
125	Lismore Castle	$50
126	The Custom House Dublin	$50
127	Carrigogunnell Castle (near Limerick)	$50
128	Carrick a Rede (Country Antrim)	$50
129	Delphi Lodge (Connemara)	$50
130	Powerscourt Fall	$50
131	Pontoon Bridge - Lough Conn	$50
132	Garromin - Connemara	$50
133	Seven Churches of Clonmacnoise (on the Shannon)	$40
134	The Valley of the Blackwater (between Lismore and Youghall)	$50
135	Abbey of Moyne	$50
136	Cromwells Bridge, Glengariff	$50
137	Devenish Island (Loch Erne)	$50
138	The Eagle Mountain, Killeries (Connemara)	$50
139	Monument of General Ross (Ross Trevor)	$50
140	Waterford	$50
141	Abby of Clare Galway	$50
142	Lough Ina (Connemara)	$50
143	Killiney Hill (near Dublin)	$50
Washington DC
144	Principal Front of the Capitol Washington	$80
145	View of the Capitol at Washington	$80
146	Washington from the Presidents House	$80
147	The Presidents House from the Water	$80
148	Ascent to the Capitol, Washington	$80
New Hampshire
150	The Silver Cascade	$60
151	The Notch House, White Mountains	$60
152	Squawm Lake	$80
153	View from Mount Washington	$80
154	View of Meredith	$80
155	Mount Washington and the White Hills	$60
156	Mount Jefferson	$60
157	Pulpit Rock	$60
158	Saw Mill at Centre Habour	$80
159	Lake Winnipisseogee, from Red Hill	$80
160	The Willey House	$60
161	Centre Harbour	$80
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