Ink and water: How the printing industry helped build the Port of New York

Bowne & Co. Stationers today, via Flickr cc Bowne & Co. Stationers, which the South Street Seaport Museum bills as the city’s “oldest operating business under the same name,” has been a presence in Lower Manhattan since 1775. That year, Robert Bowne opened a dry goods and stationery store at 39 Queen Street. Following the American […more]

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