Wall Street - 1866
Street scene on Wall Street, looking west towards Trinity Church, taken from the Merchant's Exchange Building (left, corner of William Street). Illustration after photograph by William B. Austin, published in the front page of Harper's Weekly, June 23, 1866.
At the time, Wall Street was a well-established business and financial place, among the most important in the world. A permanent transatlantic cable had finally succeeded in 1866 and New York was connected to Europe by telegraph.
This Merchants' Exchange building was completed about 1841, on the same site of the old building completed in 1827 and destroyed in the Great Fire of 1835. It was the former home of the New York Stock Exchange, where it remained until 1854. Continue below...
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On the northeast corner of William Street is the Bank of New York building, completed in 1858. The neoclassical Bank of America Building, on the northwest corner of William Street was demolished in 1888.
Inside the old Merchant's Exchange Building destroyed by fire in 1835.
Wall Street - 1866
