Broad St. Curb Brokers Photo

by Irving Underhill, photog

$450 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York: American Studio, 1916. Silver print photograph, 10.5” x 14”. A scarce photograph by noted New York City commercial photographer Irving Underhill 1872–1960 showing curb brokers trading stocks in the outdoor market on Broad St. in Manhattan’s financial district. During the late-1800s and early-1900s, curbstone brokers conducted trading on the actual street-curbs of financial districts—the most

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