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Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ields identified the old papermarket with what was undoubtedly the greatest improve-ment business had ever received up to that moment. Tothe day of his death Mr. Field was proud of his connec-tion with the paper trade and of his old store in BeekmanStreet. His firm name remained in Beekman Street tilllate in the 60s. Other firms in Beekman Street who have made anenviable record for themselves in the annals of old NewYork were R. E. Dietz and Herman Behr & Co. R. E.Dietz is the famous lamp maker whose shop was at No.66. Mr. Dietz made the first kerosene oil lamp ever de-signed and the business which he then established hasgrown to be the largest of its kind in the country. Her-man Behr & Co., whose shop was at No. 75 has also be-come the leader in their line. Among the most treasured items of old New York arethe lithographs of street scenes in the early 50s and thequaint little plates which appeared in Valentines Manualabout the same time. These old records are all we now ( 76)
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Foot of Whitehall Street in 1859. Terminal of the old Broadway stage lines. Robert Fulton lived in the house on the left. Trinitv steeple is seen in the background. Collection of Mr. Theo. H. Schneider. OF OLD NEW YORK have to show what New York looked like in the 50s andare now very precious and very expensive. Firms whosenames are lettered on the views no doubt purchased theirallotment at a cost not to exceed ten cents per copy.Many of these views were the product of a BeekmanStreet lithographer, William Endicott & Co., one of thepioneers in this now enormous industry. Abendroth Bros., a landmark in Beekman Street forover half a century, have only recently forsaken theiroriginal habitat for an uptown location. In 1851 they wererecorded as Iron Founders. David Graham, one of thegreat criminal lawyers of the day had his office at No. 20.The great watch firm of A. C. Hugeuian was at No. 19.Numbers 15 and 17, for so many years the home of H.Lindenmeyr & Brother, was a private re

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