Commerce Gallery

Cylinder printing press, 1800s

Hoe printing press, showing type locked on the bed and overlays fixed on the cylinder; ink rollers on far right, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Wall Street's Tontine Coffee House in the late 1700s

Tontine Coffee House, corner of Water and Wall Street, meeting-place of New York brokers who formed the NY Stock Exchange.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Lake Erie grain boat in a snowstorm

Steamship carrying grain on Lake Erie in a snowstorm, headed for Buffalo, New York, 1880s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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