New York Gold Exchange mb-height 1690 showing Fleet Ditch

showing Fleet Ditch

'Covent Garden Scene - Women Workers Standing'

The scene is an interior with a marble fireplace in the background over which is a mirror

Chatting at the side of the track

New York Gold Exchange mb-height 1690 showing Fleet DitchNew 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.