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The History Box
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Images of the Past
New York City History #8 |
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Picture #42 |
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Fraunces's
Tavern |
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| Picture Credit:
Historic Towns of the Middle
States edited by Lyman P. Powell; G.P. Putnam's Sons 1901 |
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Picture #43 |
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Federal Hall |
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| Picture Credit:
Historic Towns of the Middle
States edited by Lyman P. Powell; G.P. Putnam's Sons 1901 |
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Picture #44 |
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| The Island plot
at corner of 42nd St. and Broadway
in 1880, now occupied by the
"Times" Building, after the
demolition of the Pabst Restaurant
and Brownstone Houses. |
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| Picture Credit:
Valentine's Manual of Old New York
edited by Henry Collins Brown 1923 |
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Picture #45 |
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| Clinton Hall, The
Original Mercantile Library
Building, Astor Place and 4th
avenue; also, the Opera House and
Scene of the Astor Place Riots.
All the important book sales took
place here at Leavitt's. The
Sixpenny Savings Bank occupied the
ground floor. |
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| Picture Credit:
Valentine's Manual of Old New York
edited by Henry Collins Brown 1923 |
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Picture #46 |
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| Reservoir of the
Manhattan Water Works in Chambers
Street, 1825. The Bronze figure of
Neptune was later removed to the
Manhattan Bank Building in Wall
Street and was lost when the
present building was erected. |
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| Picture Credit:
Valentine's Manual of Old New York
edited by Henry Collins Brown 1923 |
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Picture #47 |
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| The original
depot of the N.Y., N.H. & H. R.R.
Afterwards known as the Hippodrome
and later as Madison Square
Garden. Demolished in 1890 and
replaced by the present building.
Gilmore's Band gave concerts here. |
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| Picture Credit:
Valentine's Manual of Old New York
edited by Henry Collins Brown 1923 |
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| Note:
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