Identifier: treatsillustrate00trea (find matches)
Title: Treat's illustrated New York, Philadelphia and surroundings
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Treat, E. B. (Erastus Buck), 1838-1928 Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC
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Publisher: New York, E.B. Treat
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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Booths Theater, corner 2Zd-strtet and 6th Avenue,Erected in 1871 by the eminent tragedian whose name it bears. It ia afaahionahlp wort and iIip mnut costlv edifice of its character in the city AND PHILADELPHIA. 11 Description. At the time of the first settlement ofNew York it was a narrow fork of landstretching out into the bay, with a diver-sified surface of rocky woodland, swamp,and sandy plain. A deep pond coveredthe site where the Five Points has beenknown, and where the Tombs nowstands, that was fifty feet deep. Thesources that supplied it still remain, andare carried off by immense sewers underground. The tides of the ocean thenswept over the spot where now the deadlie asleep in Trinity church-yard. Thusenergy, industry, and art have widenedand beautified ti e island, and it hasbecome the most populous, wealthy, andbeautiful city in America. The island, orcity proper, is thirteen and one half mileslong, and averages one mile and threefifths in width, and covers an area of14,000

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