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COAL & IRON EXCHANGE NEW YORK CITY, SEAT OF THE DELAWARE & HUDSON CANAL COMPANY

Artist

Allan, J. N. - Engraver

Title

COAL & IRON EXCHANGE NEW YORK CITY, SEAT OF THE DELAWARE & HUDSON CANAL COMPANY

Description

The Delaware & Hudson Canal Company's building is an immense and imposing fire-proof structure, generally known as the Coal and Iron Exchange. It is on Cortlandt Street, at the southeast corner of Church Street. It is not an "Exchange" building, excepting in name; but it is the property of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, for whom it was built in 1874-76, and whose main offices are located therein.

Date

1876

Accession number

British Library HMNTS HMNTS 9605.f.1.

Source/Photographer

Image extracted from page 491 of The American Centenary; a history of the progress of the Republic of the United States during the first one hundred years of its existence, by LOSSING, Benson John. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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