(New York :
Printed for the Fifth Avenue Bank of New York,
1915.)
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B. F. Smith, Jr., artist.
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(Jotiection of Percy R. Pyne, 2nd.
NEW YORK IN 1855.
A view from the Latting Tower, looking southward from 42nd Street.
The corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street (in the left foreground) gives an idea of the unimproved character of the land in this vicinity as late as 1855.