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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. NRHP reference # 78001877 Photograph of Mertie West posing in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Broad Street stretches across the foreground. Mertie West stands at center on the curb across the street. She looks to camera. In front and to the left of her, a car is parked along the curb, facing left. Other pedestrians walk along the sidewalk behind her. The New York Stock Exchange building lines the back edge of the sidewalk. It stands in partial view, entering frame from the right and extending just past center. An entrance to the NYSE is behind Mertie and sits recessed back from the rest of the building to the right. Pilasters flank the front door and support a lintel. In the lintel, it reads, "STOCK EXCHANGE." Above the lintel a balustrade sits in front of a large, semicircular window. Another building stands in partial view to the left, abutting the New York Stock Exchange building. Text from negative sleeve: 2361. Eastern trip October 1947 New York City 1 View from Empire State Bldg looking down on Penna R R station and Postoffice [sic] and Hudson river 2 Mertie West in front of Stock Exchange Sub Treasury bldg in background 3 Scene on Wall Street 4 Mertie West in front of stock exchan [sic] 5 View from tower of Empire State bldg 6, 7, 8 & 9 Four view s [sic] of Mertie West on balcony Empire State Bldg 10 and 11 One large and one small picture taken in Chinatown
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2361_004 ark:/21198/zz002j3pcd
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) Neoclassicism (Architecture)--New York (State)--New York Sightseers--New York (State)--New York West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 New York Stock Exchange
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