Pictures Dated 9th December 2011

Whaling ship diagram, 1800s

Deck plan and cutaway view of whaling schooner "Amelia" of New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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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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