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The History Box
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Images of the Past
New York City History #5 |
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Picture #24 |
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| Grammar School
No. 3, Grove and Hudson Streets.
Organized 1818. This building
erected 1860, destroyed by fire
February, 1905. |
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| Picture Credit:
Valentine's Manual of the City of
New York 1917-1918, edited by
Henry Collins Brown. |
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Picture #25 |
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| When a successful
Atlantic cable was finally laid by
the Great Eastern in the summer of
1866, the company's office at
Broadway and Liberty Street, New
York, was promptly crowded with
people willing to pay a dollar a
letter for telegrams to Europe. |
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| Picture Credit: Adventures of
America 1857-1900: A Pictorial
Record From Harper's Weekly by
John A Kouwenhoven; Harper &
Brothers Publishers (1938) |
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Picture #26 |
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| This tenement in
Mulberry Street was home to eighty
people, half of whom were
children. Saturated with filth and
vermin, strewn with garbage and
waste, it was typical of the
plague spots which bred typhus,
smallpox, and diphtheria in
American cities. |
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| Picture Credit: Adventures of
America 1857-1900: A Pictorial
Record From Harper's Weekly by
John A Kouwenhoven; Harper &
Brothers Publishers (1938) |
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Picture #27 |
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The center of
financial speculation was Wall
Street, home of many of the
nation's largest banks. |
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| Picture Credit: Adventures of
America 1857-1900: A Pictorial
Record From Harper's Weekly by
John A Kouwenhoven; Harper &
Brothers Publishers (1938) |
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Picture #28 |
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Park Row__Old
buildings replaced by the new Park
Row Building__1890. |
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| Picture Credit:
Valentine's Manual of the City of
New York 1917-1918, edited by
Henry Collins Brown. |
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Picture #29 |
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| Fourteenth
Street, between Fifth and Sixth
Avenues, about 1860, showing old
Spingler farmhouse just back of
present Spingler Building on Union
Square. Entrance was on Fourteenth
Street. |
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| Picture Credit:
Valentine's Manual of the City of
New York 1917-1918, edited by
Henry Collins Brown. |
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prohibited unless permission to
use is granted from thehistorybox.com |
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