i-fcrtr JraMBKH) 3f=sp is^w3rir '^**-s«« «•■ .asanas IDENTICAL PROSPECTS OF NEW YORK FROM BROOKLYN, 1759 AND 1949 Painting and photograph at The New-York Historical Society York of this period reminded actress Fanny Kemble of "an irregular collection of temporary buildings, erected for some casual purpose, full of life, animation, and variety, but not meant to endure for any length of time."46 Whatever their appearance of transiency in the 1830s, by the later years of the century most of the city's business structures, "Frances A. Kemble [Mrs. Pierce Butler], Journal (2 vols.; Philadelphia: 1835), I, 143- 419