Broad Street from Wall Street, New York City

Engraving shows Broad Street seen from Wall Street, with Drexel Building on the southeast corner. Grawing published by D. Appleton & Co., in the New York illustrated, 1885. A early illustration was published in the same magazine in 1874.

The tower of the Produce Exchange, is represented in the distance. The institution, founded in 1861, opened its headquarters at Bowling Green, in 1884.

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The 10-story Mills Building, on the left at 15 Broad Street and Exchange Place, was completed in 1882 and demolished in 1926. The Drexel Building was completed in 1873. It was the headquarters of the Drexel Morgan & Co. and the Leather Manufacturers' National Bank. It was demolished in 1913. The NYSE Building, on the west side Broad Street, was expanded end enlarged in 1881. Utility poles and overhead wires, which polluted the urban landscape, were not represented. They were removed by 1889.

The following text accompanies this illustration in the New York illustrated: "At the corner of Wall and Broad Streets we find the Drexel Building, occupied by Drexel, Morgan & Co., the bankers, and the Leather Manufacturers' National Bank. It is six stories high, built out of white marble, in the Renaissance style. Adjoining it, on two sides, is the Mills Building, a brick and stone structure of many stories, a very hive offices. The tall marble building seen on the right of the picture is the Stock Exchange, which is in Broad Street, near Wall, with two other entrances on Wall and New Streets. The offices of the brokers who live, move, and have their being in the Exchange occupy nearly every building for several block around this financial center, The throng is great and continuous, and on a busy day in the stock-market the excitement seems almost delirious, presenting to the unsuspicious stranger almost the aspect of and out-door bedlam."