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Union Club in 1855: Northwest corner of 21st Street and Fifth Avenue

Engraved business card from the Madison Cottage, announcing the time of the departure of stages

Franconi's Hippodrome: 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue in 1853

Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street about 1880: Showing the Fifth Avenue Hotel on the left, the old horse-car lines and the Fifth Avenue stages

Madison Square in the early [18]60s

House of Refuge in 1832: The remodeled United States Arsenal building, which stood on a site now part of Madison Square

Ceremonies of Dedication of the Worth Monument November 25, 1857: The houses in the background are typical of the buildings which then surrounded Madison Square

Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street: Showing Grant's funeral procession, August 8, 1885. On the right-hand side are the residences of John Jacob and Willam B. Astor, now the site of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

Northwest Corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue as it was: Showing the Dr. Samuel P. Townsend mansion (1861) on the left and the A.T. Stewart mansion (1876) on the right.

34th Street and Fifth Avenue today: Showing the Waldorf-Astoria and the Columbia Trust Building on the site of the Townsend and Stewart mansions

Coventry Waddell mansion: northwest corner of 37th Street and Fifth Avenue. Now the site of the Brick Presbyterian Church.

Brick Presbyterian Church: 37th Street and Fifth Avenue. Showing the remarkable transformation of the Waddell site since 1845

Union League Club: Northeast corner of 39th Street and Fifth Avenue. Once the site of Dickel's Riding Academy

John G. Wendel House: Northwest corner of 39th Street and Fifth Avenue

Croton Cottage: Southeast corner of 40th Street and Fifth Avenue

Rutgers Female College, about 1860: 41st to 42nd Streets on the east side of Fifth Avenue

View of Fifth Avenue: Looking south from 42nd Street. Croton Reservoir on the right.

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Croton Reservoir: Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. As it appeared when the work of demolition began in 1900.

Two images on one page.

Crystal Palace and the Latting Tower in 1853: The Crystal Palace was erected at the rear of the Reservoir, on the site which subsequently became Bryant Park

New York in 1855: 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.

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