Wharf Gallery

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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Colonial seafarers in New York, 1700s

Recruiting sailors outside a tavern on Brownjohn's wharf, New York, 1700s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Howard Pyle illustration

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Clipper ship "Flying Cloud" launched in Boston

Launch of shipbuilder Donald McKay's clipper ship "Flying Cloud" in Boston, 1851.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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