Discover the untold story of Wall Street's rise from a humble street in colonial New York to the epicenter of global finance. In this full-length history documentary, we explore how financial.. enabled by new technologies and slow, but savvy site assembly. Wall Street's high-rise history illustrates and exaggerates the typical story of skyscraper development expressed by the value of land and the demand for prime locations. As the district became the center of finance in the mid-19th century, Wall Street lots became the richest dirt on earth, selling at the highest prices per square.
Wall Street was not always the corner of capital: it had several earlier identities. This series of images pictures Wall Street from its colonial origins in the early 17th century through 1850, when its commercial character was set. The prints are a prequel to the identity of Wall Street as the storied financial district, recorded in the era before photography and before the invention of the.. Wall Street runs for a short eight blocks in lower Manhattan and is headquarters of America's financial markets. But Wall Street is far more than a location—it has been adopted as a term to.