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Manhattan: South Street - Old Slip

UNCLE SAM'S CHIMNEY SEEMS TO RIVAL NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS The camera has done a clever thing in showing the in Assay Building at South street and Old Slip, It's one huge chimney makes it an easy landmark when approaching "ahattan by water. Here in this business like building gold from abroad with alloys in different proportion from that stipulated for our coinage is melted down and refined. Bars of precious metal become available for manufacturing jeweler or the government Mint. Keystone-Underwood KG No Date.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection