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Merchants' Exchange, New York

Description: Image of an eye-level street view of the columned, domed Merchant's Exchange building in New York City, designed by architect Isaiah Rogers, showing a bustling street scene with horse-drawn vehicles in the street and people walking around the building; the building's facade is topped by a relief frieze and statue with the engraving "Erected MDCCCXXXVIII."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1836-1839
Call number: priJLC_FIN_000679
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
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Merchants' Exchange [sic], San Francisco

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Image is of the front of the "old," small Merchant's Exchange (a simple Classical Revival building) with several people and a carriage outside of it in the street. There are several signs on the building to the left of the Merchant's Exchange. "Butler. Eastman."--text, below image. There are two short lines of handwriting on the right side of the sheet. Paper color: blue.

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Albany - Exchange, & Museum

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Image of an eye-level street view of the corners of Broadway and State Streets in Albany, New York, showing the Exchange Bank on the right-hand corner, a museum on the left-hand corner, and surrounding businesses, with streets bustling with pedestrians, a street market, and horse-drawn carriages.

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Compo house. : The residence of Richard H. Winslow Esq. at Westport, Conn

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the Compo mansion, the residence of Richard H. Winslow (1806-1861) in Westport, Connecticut, as viewed from the street, with a columned facade and a large gated front yard.

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Printing-house Square. New York

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Image of a street-level view of Printing House Square in New York City; business buildings for the New York Times, the Tribune, and other printers and publishers surround a bustling city street intersection; pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles, a military band and ranks of soldiers on parade fill the square.

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This sheet contains samples of real penmanship from Gaskell's complete compendium of elegant writing

Visual Materials

Image of a variety of penmanship examples, both text and graphic, advertising Gaskell's Complete Compendium of Elegant Writing; bust-length portrait of G.A. Gaskell at top left; small image of the "Merchant's Exchange Building" inset at top center.

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View of the ruins after the great fire in New-York, Decr. 16th. & 17th. 1835. As seen from Exchange Place

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Image of a street view of the ruins of buildings amid rubble, smoldering flames, and smoke on Exchange Place in New York City following the Great New York Fire of December 16-17, 1835, with firefighters, including some carrying a ladder and throwing water on the fire, spectators, a horse-drawn wagon, and men moving boxes and belongings out from the damaged buildings including a mirror, chairs, and trunks that sit in the street.

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Merchants' Exchange, New York

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