[Broadway, Looking South from Prince Street, New York]
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Three eagles can be found in this photograph looking south along Broadway from Prince Street. So, too, a rooster, a bear, a horse, and several ghostlike specimens of the human race. The unknown picture maker - perhaps William B. Holmes whose sign appears in the exact center of the photograph - recorded one of Manhattan's most active and attractive blocks in the 1860s. More than a century later it remains so. The handsome marble-faced building at the corner on the right still stands. Built in 1860 for the retail silversmith and jewelry firm of Ball, Black & Co., it is currently home to another purveyor of luxury goods - a well-known retailer of lingerie.
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