R & A specimens . >afe, AT |plate !§tyQ%xt0XY!, a view of which is given is a large vault of arched masonry, built under the Coni-ng hill and Washington-Street sidewalk, and is probably themost complete work of its kind in our city. It is 90 feetin length, 10 feet wide, and 15 feet high, and is keptthoroughly warm and dry by steam-pipes passing up anddown its entire length. Huge shelves line the sides of the vault,and a third tier passes along the centre. On these are stored ourStereotype and Electrotype Plates, as well as Wood Engravings, allof which require great care for their p
R & A specimens . >afe, AT |plate !§tyQ%xt0XY!, a view of which is given is a large vault of arched masonry, built under the Coni-ng hill and Washington-Street sidewalk, and is probably themost complete work of its kind in our city. It is 90 feetin length, 10 feet wide, and 15 feet high, and is keptthoroughly warm and dry by steam-pipes passing up anddown its entire length. Huge shelves line the sides of the vault,and a third tier passes along the centre. On these are stored ourStereotype and Electrotype Plates, as well as Wood Engravings, allof which require great care for their proper preservation. Ml theshelves are numbered, and so well is everything arranged, and suchmethod is there observed, that notwithstanding the fact that there are. Q\ Counting Jtoom. (Q here deposited more than 200,000 different plates, yet no difficultyis experienced in obtaining immediately any particular one memorandum of all the plates and their location is kept in theCounting Room. This Safe, most judiciously located underground,is built of brick and stone, closed with iron doors, and believed tobe in every respect completely fire-proof. And when the value of itscontents, and the difficulty, if not impossibility, in many instances, ofreplacing them, are considered, the importance of having this struc-ture all we have described it cannot be over-estimated. Quittingthis subterranean cavern, where part of the time we have been atleast twenty feet below the street, we emerge into the light of day,and, making the tour of the building, we pass to The Counting Koom, on the second floor, by the principal en-trance, No. 3 Cornhill. We notice that the entire ground-floor andparts of the story above are not used by us for the purposes of ou
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