View of the old City Hall, Wall St. In the year 1789
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Item data
Title
View of the old City Hall, Wall St. In the year 1789
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
New York City -- Federal Hall
Names
Hatch & Smillie (Engraver)
J. & G. Neale (Firm) (Printer)
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 (Artist)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1850 (Approximate)
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC NEW YC-Fed
Subjects
Federal Hall National Memorial (New York, N.Y.) -- 1703-1812
City & town halls -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1780-1789
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- 1780-1789
City & town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1780-1789
Genres
Notes
Statement Of Responsibility: "Drawn & Engraved for the New York Mirror." "Eng:d on Steel by Hatch & Smillie." "Printed by J & G Neale" "Drawn by Diedrich Knickerbocker, Jr."--printed on border. Diedrich Knickerbocker, Jr. is Pseudonym for Washington Irving.
Biographical/Historical: First building on site constructed 1703; 1788 renamed Federal Hall; first capital of the U.S. under the 1789 Constitution; 1939 designated a national historical site; 1955 renamed Federal Hall National Memorial (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003490)
Physical Description
Steel engravings
Extent: 19 x 24 cm. (7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.)
Foxing on image.
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17095079
Barcode: 33333159155734
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ce910660-c55a-012f-72a5-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1850
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MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "View of the old City Hall, Wall St. In the year 1789" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ce910660-c55a-012f-72a5-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1850). View of the old City Hall, Wall St. In the year 1789 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ce910660-c55a-012f-72a5-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "View of the old City Hall, Wall St. In the year 1789" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 10, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ce910660-c55a-012f-72a5-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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