Friday, March 26, 2010

20 Historic Photos of New York City


Huts made of salvaged materials. Notice the baby carriage. Photographed by Berenice Abbott. October 25, 1935.



Washington Market, 1917.



View from Empire State Building to Chrysler Building and Queensboro Bridge. January 1932.



The Mall, Central Park. Around 1905.



Rear view of tenement, 134 1/2 Thompson Street. Lewis Wickes Hine. February 1912.



S.S. Coamo leaving New York. December 1941.



School children around May poles in Central Park.



52nd St. and E. River. December 1931.



Produce market on Washington Street. 1952.



A row of hanging oppossums.



Suffragettes on way to Boston. George Grantham Bain Collection.



A girl carrying kimonos. Thompson St, February 1912.



Italian Festa.



Grand Central Terminal. October 1941



Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Check out the decorative ironwork. Photographed by Berenice Abbott. November 27, 1935.



Clam seller in Mulberry Bend. Around 1900.



View from 27th floor. December 1931.



Chorus girls arriving in New York City, from England, in 1926. George Grantham Bain.



Camel cigarette advertisement. Times Square, Feb 1943.



An old woman carrying a heavy load on Lafayette St. February 1912.

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