New York City Gallery

Wall Streets 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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Abandoned baby found by police, New York City, 1890s

Policeman bringing in an abandoned infant found in an alley on a winter night, New York City, 1890s.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 19th-century photograph

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Busy telegraph office in New York City, 1860s

People sending wires at the American Telegraph Company office on Broadway at Liberty Street, New York City, 1860s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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