Saturday 9 July 2011

Pictures.


The original city map called the Castello Plan from 1660, showing the wall on the right side

Depiction of the wall of New Amsterdam on a tile in Wall Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) subway station

Wall Street in 1797

Conjectural view of Wall Street, as it probably looked at the time of Washington's 1789 inauguration

1847 map showing the street layout and ferry routes for lower Manhattan.

View of Wall Street from corner of Broad Street, 1867: The building on the left was the U.S. Customs House. Today it's the home of the Federal Hall National Memorial.

Lower Manhattan around 1914.

Wall Street in the stock market crash of 1929

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