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3 photos and 4 illustrations tagged canalstreet, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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• manhattan
• bldigital
• publicdomain
• mechanicalcurator
• newyorkcity
• pubplacenewyork
• sherlocknet:tag=house
• sherlocknet:tag=place
• sherlocknet:category=landscapes
• large
• vol0
• date1877
• sherlocknet:tag=side
• sherlocknet:tag=john
• sherlocknet:tag=history
• sherlocknet:tag=street
• sherlocknet:tag=school
• date1894
• sysnum001852804
• janvierthomasathomasallibone
• imagesfrombook001852804
• imagesfromvolume0018528040
• rotatedcc
• sherlocknet:tag=church

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• British Library 4 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 2 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration

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White House Hotel (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Racklever said:

  John Schrank lived here before his attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt

• Michael Daddino said:

  This is on Manhattan's Canal Street, near the corner of Elizabeth Street--currently part of New York's Chinatown. Many of the buildings on the right side of the photo remain intact.

• dicklolli said:

  My grandfather Gustav Jost and his father Leopold Jost and mother Ephrosine ran this bar and lunchroom, and probably the whole hotel in 1900. The 1900 census shows them living at this address with six boarders and two servants.

• Richard Norton said:

  here is the Google Street View:
  

Broadway at Canal St. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Wystan said:

  LOC -- The Bain News Agency mistakenly dated the photo as December, 1914. It actually is part of the Bain photostream from December, 1913.

• Wystan said:

  The elevated railway under construction in the photo put me in mind of another Bain/LOC image of street railway construction, that was posted on May 21, 2010:

• JE Piper said:

  These are interesting to research and do, but they pretty much get no reaction here on Flicker:
  
  

• Wystan said:

  JE Piper -- I think your matchups are nothing less than amazing. It must take hours to get each one just right.

• JE Piper said:

  Thank you, Wystan, from such a fine researcher as yourself. Actually, when I see these photos I often recognize the buildings right away -- but I'm also working on some of the more challenging ones that have me stumped!