Manhattan: Broad Street - Exchange Place

1900; 1904

Manhattan: Broad Street - Exchange Place

Broad Street, north across Exchange Place, showing the Curb Market in action. The various brokers and traders transact their business in the street and signal results to their office associates in the fore ground buildings. Subsequently they will erect a building to house this exchange. At the left are, the Johnston, Blair, Mackay, N. Y. Stock Exchange, Gillenden, and Hanover Trust Bldgs. View 2 eliminates the first mentioned structure and includes a glimpse of the U. S. Sub Treasury on the right. About 1900's October 1904 Thomas W. Kennedy, photo Thru Beecher Ogden Museum Photographers Assn. George L. Balgue, photo

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection