New York Gold Exchange mb-height 1690 showing the gate on fire

showing the gate on fire during the Great Fire of London 1666 at the point when the walls of Ludgate Gaol fell

27th September 1961

Zoological study of the Common death adder Acanthophis antarcticus native to Australia

Portrait of William Herschel

New York Gold Exchange mb-height 1690 showing the gate on fireNew York Gold Exchange, USA, 1863. The New York Gold Exchange was established early in the American Civil War as an open market for transactions involving gold and the government created demand notes known as greenbacks. It was founded by bankers and brokers who had been involved in the New York Stock Exchange and other mercantile exchanges for whom trades in gold and greenbacks were taking up to much of their attention.