New York City Gallery

Wall Street's Tontine Coffee House in the late 1700s

Tontine Coffee House, corner of Water and Wall Street, meeting-place of New York brokers who formed the NY Stock Exchange.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Wiring New York City for electricity, 1880s

Workers testing the insulation of electric wires going in the streets of New York City, 1882.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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New Amsterdam, mid-1600s

View of New Amsterdam at the foot of Manhattan Island, mid-1600s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 17th-century illustration by Augustine Herman

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