Typing on a typewriter, dialing a rotary phone and opening a card catalogue at the library: all of these are sounds from the past, though maybe not that far in the past for some New Yorkers.
Still, these are all examples of tools and technology from the analog age, which lasted roughly between the 1870s and 1970s. It’s when New York rose as a center for information, finance, architecture and real estate.
“What we are looking at is all the ways the city scaled up and thrived and became a true global capital, without computers, without personal devices,” said Lilly Tuttle, curator of a new exhibition at the
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