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Drop It Like It's Shot: New York's Shot Towers
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If you were able to gaze at the skyline of New York in the 18th or 19th century, you might notice some strange towers sprouting up across the city. These towers existed to keep early New Yorkers locked and loaded and were essential in the creation of lead shot for ammunition.
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424 East 54th Street
Shot tower and old Dutch house, East River and East 53rd Street, New York City, 1898.
424 East 54th Street
H.C. Woodall \[residence]. Living room to fireplace. Located at 424 East 52nd Street, NYC.
424 East 54th Street
Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 52nd St. First Avenue, at and adjoining S.E. corner of 52nd Street, after demolition of 938 First Avenue, where a wing of the new South Gate apartment house development on 52nd Street will front on First Avenue. 424 East 54th Street, shown here, is already completed; and the houses between that building and the rear of 944 First Avenue, on the corner, are being demolished to make room for two more, No. 400 and No. 412. October 21, 1930. P. L. Sperr.
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