King's Views of New York - VII

It's Friday - time for more King's Views of New York. You know the deal, click on the "See Large" link beneath each photo to see it in much more detail.




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Sixty Wall Street - through to Pine St., 362 ft. high; conspicuous landmark; visible from the ocean; contains Wall Street Branch P.O., second only to General P.O. in receipts. International Banking Corp., branches in 17 foreign cities; capital, $9,500,000. Gen. Thos. H. Hubbard Pres.


(See LARGE) - Photo: Richard Rummell - 1907
Equitable Trust Co., 37 - 43 Wall St.; 327 ft. high; erected 1907. Branches at 222 Broadway and 618 Fifth Ave. Trust Co. occupies main floor; capital and surplus, $13,000,000; deposits, $89,000,000. Alvin W. Krech, President.


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Wall Street Canyon - financial heart of America, occupied entirely by banks, financial institutions and allied interests; Stock Exchange at left; the U.S. Sub-Treasury at the right; and 39-story Banker's Trust replacing Gillender Building.


(See LARGE) - Photo: Irving Underhill - 1914
Broad Street - South from Wall, line of canal in New Amsterdam days, with bridge near present Exchange Place, where merchants met daily to trade; now centre of world's largest market in securities. Broad Exchange shows beyond Mills Building.


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J.P. Morgan & Co. - S.E. corner Wall and Broad Sts., opposite Sub-Treasury; most famous international banking house; founded as Drexel, Morgan & Co., in 1871 by the union of Drexel & Co. and Junius S. Morgan and his son J. Pierpont Morgan, who became the most powerful banker in the world and on his death in April, 1913, was succeeded by his son of the same name. Magnificent and unique new banking house, built of huge blocks of flawless white marble in 1913 - 1914 at a cost of $2,000,000 on plot worth $4,000,000; Trowbridge & Livingston, Architects.



...to be continued.