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…."
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published 1828
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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
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