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Unknown [The stock exchange on Broad Street]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06353 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: New York, New York Type: Photograph Date: 1885 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 49.5 x 43.5 cm. Order a Copy

Handwritten along bottom of photograph "The Stock Exchange Broad St. N.Y. 1885." Large format photograph with modern mounting depicting the old stock exchange at the corner of Broad and Wall streets, showing the Drexel, Morgan & Co. building on far left.

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