Old NYSE Trading Floor

Old automatic ticker apparatus and stock quotation kiosks from trading floor of New York Stock Exchange building at 18 Broad Street, New York City, 1922. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The New York Stock Exchange, a name adopted in 1863, was originally established by a group of 24 stockbrokers in 1792, outside of 68 Wall Street. After the Civil War, with the settlement of the West, the building of the railroads, and the development of mass production techniques in manufacturing, the United States economy grew rapidly. The Exchange expanded with the economy, aided by technological advances, like the electric stock ticker (1867) and the telephone (1878) which linked the trading floor with brokers' offices and their customers.

In 1903, the NYSE moved into this neoclassical building with a much larger trading floor.