Coal & Iron Exchange, Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, New York

Engraver James N. Allen American
1876
Not on view
The D&H Canal Company built and managed a canal that transport its coal from Honesdale, Pennsylvania to the Hudson River. Their headquarters on Cortland Street and Church Street in New York was built in 1874-76, an imposing fireproof structure known as the Coal and Iron Exchange. The print appeared as an illustration in Benson John Lossing's "The American Centenary; a history of the progress of the Republic of the United States during the first one hundred years of its existence" (1876).

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  • Title: Coal & Iron Exchange, Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, New York
  • Engraver: James N. Allen (American, active 1875–76)
  • Date: 1876
  • Medium: Steel engraving
  • Dimensions: Image: 4 5/8 × 6 5/8 in. (11.7 × 16.8 cm)
    Sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 15/16 in. (24.2 × 30.3 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954
  • Object Number: 54.90.1614
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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