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English: Caption reads: "CITY HALL."

Credit line reads: "C. A. Busby delt. W. Hooker Sc."

Text (p. 185) reads: "The foundation stone…was laid on 26th Sept. 1803, during the mayoralty of Edward Livingston, Esq.….It was finished in 1812….The City Hall was originally intended for, and is now applied to, the use of the Common Council…and for the judges of the courts of law to hold their sittings…."
Date published 1828
Source HathiTrust: The Picture of New-York, and Stranger's Guide to the Commercial Metropolis of the United States. (New-York: A. T. Goodrich, 1828), after p. 182
Author Drawn by Charles Augustin Busby. Engraved by W. Hooker.

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