Visual Materials

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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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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Merchants' Exchange [sic], San Francisco

Rare Books

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

Visual Materials

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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Printing-house Square. New York

Visual Materials

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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Thos. White & Co. : Manufacturers and wholesale dealers in straw goods, silk bonnets, french flowers and millinery goods, no. 41 South Second Street, Philadelphia

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level view of the Thos. White & Co. five-story building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with storefront showing a bustling street with horse-drawn carts and carriages out front; men, women, and children of various walks of life are part of the street scene, including delivery boys, equestrians, parents, couples, and laborers.

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Exposition souvenir

Visual Materials

Image of five vignettes featuring buildings and architectural details in an exposition souvenir print distributed as an art supplement to the October 5, 1899, issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer, presumably for the National Export Exposition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September to December of 1899; a bald eagle with wings outstretched standing on a hammer and anvil is pictured at top center above the central framed image of a large columned building; a small vignette at bottom center portrays an exhibition scene with domed structures imitating the Far East, a Native American tipi, and people in ethnic costume riding camels and elephants.

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Merchants' Exchange, New York

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