Perspective View of Canal Street
New York: D.T. Valentine, 1860. Lithograph. Sheet measures 17 3/4" x 22 3/4". Image measures 16 1/4" x 21 2/3". New York: D. T. Valentine, (1860). Diagram with views and a map to illustrate the canal that was made to drain the Collect Pond in lower Manhattan. The Pond, a five-acre, 60-foot deep pond that was fed by an underground stream had become polluted. By 1813, the canal was dismantled after the engineering project was completed. Folded as issued with..... More