A sampling of vintage urban artifacts, Past Objects provides a glimpse into the past through historical relics unearthed from the landfills, construction sites, privies, and cisterns of New York City.
Whether it’s antique liquor bottles and opium vials or elaborately carved pipes, porcelain dolls, and obsolete tools, amateur archeologist Scott Jordan has been digging for the past since the 1960s. Featuring photography by J.K. Putnam, Jordan’s book is a window into the daily life of early American city-dwellers, as well as a guidebook for modern metropolitan diggers in search of buried treasure.
“Automobile head lamp (circa 1900) from a Queens landfill”
“Hardwood pulley wheels (circa 1760s-80s) from sailing ships docked in lower Manhattan, found at Old Slip and Front Street, Manhattan”
Telling the tales of NYC's past through
recovery and restoration.
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