Section: Behind The Camera's Eye: A Nostalgic View Of Vintage New York City
 

Directory: New York City History

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Introduction: The photographs and paintings that are presented here are from a wide variety of artists exhibited on various websites. This treasure trove of collected prints, rich with sentimental or narrative association reflect urban life in vintage NYC. It is evident that the works of these photographers or painters inspired by different motivations and purposes, are dedicated to educate the citizens  in its complex city history. Let us all be grateful for their wonderful contribution.


Section University of Virginia Exhibition
Web Link: Brooklyn Bridge
Web Link: Fifth Avenue at 59th Street
Web Link: The Viaduct
Web Link: High Bridge
Web Link: Grand Central
Web Link: The Tombs Prison
Web Link: Wall Street
Web Link: Stock Exchange, New York
Web Link: Grant's Tomb and Palisades, New York City
Web Link: Old Grand Central
Web Link: The Woolworth Building
Web Link: The Famous Vanderbilt Mansion
Web Link: The Bridge of Sighs
Web Link: Prisoners on Blackwell island
Web Link: Soldiers and Sailors Monument


Section The History Box.com
Web Link: Images of the Past New York City History Picture Gallery 1-13

Section Hello New  York Exhibition
Web Link: Scenes of Modern New York  At The Turn of the Century Pages: 1-25
Web Link: Scenes of Modern New York At The Turn of the Century Pages: 26-50

Section The John Lileks Exhibition
Web Link: 5th and 42nd
Web Link: 5th Avenue, North from 40th Street, NYC.
Web Link: 23rd street
Web Link: Park Avenue
Web Link: Broadway Chambers Building 1899
Web Link: 5th Avenue Building
Web Link: The Flatiron Building
Web Link: Gillender Building
Web Link: Liggett Building
Web Link: Original Met Life Building


Section Old America Exhibition
Web Link: Interior of the New York Stock Exchange 1910
Web Link: Wall Street and Trinity Church 1904
Web Link: Broad street Lunch Carts 1906
Web Link: Four Beach Dancers 1940
Web Link: Showgirl in Feathers
Web Link: Ice Skating in Central Park 1898
Web Link: 1922 Auto Wreck


Section Time Freeze Photo Exhibition
Web Link: Cortlandt Street, looking west, turn of the century.
Web Link: 14th Street at Union Square 1930's
Web Link: 1957  Chevy Belair
Web Link: 5th Avenue 1900, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Web Link: Ferry Terminal
Web Link: 102 & 104 Christopher Street  1906
Web Link: 132 Christopher Street 1906
Web Link: 19th St. Hudson & Manhattan RR Uptown Entrance
Web Link: NYC Fire Hydrant 1930's


Section A Journey Through Chinatown
Web Link: A Wide Variety of Pictures of the Early 1900s


Section Vintage Photos Exhibition: Nat Fein Estate
Web Link: Babe Ruth At age 53, George Herman Ruth suits up in the Yankee locker room for the last time 6/13/1948.
Web Link: Babe Ruth & Bat Boy 1947
Web Link: 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers
Web Link: Joe DiMaggio 1953
Web Link: Casey Stengel September 14, 1953
Web Link: Yogi Berra
Web Link: Puppies on Clothesline 1945
Web Link: Old Characters on 3rd Avenue 1939
Web Link: Rabbi Lipschitz
Web Link: Library Building during Victory in Japan Day
Web Link: Greenwich Village Ice Store 1942
Web Link: The Pickle Lady January 20, 1950 (Avenue C between Fifth and Six Streets)
Web Link: Bowery Discussion July 20, 1947
Web Link: Sweet Potato Man 1939
Web Link: Old Lady on 2nd Avenue 1940
Web Link: Second Avenue Jewish Storefront 1940
Web Link: Last Open-Air 5th Ave Bus (December 29, 1946)
Web Link: Bowery & Elevated Subway 1947 (Chatham Square, looking north up the Bowery.


Section Vintage Works Ltd. Exhibition
Web Link: New Traffic Lights for 5th Ave, New York City 1933
Web Link: View of a butcher shop's interior, and how meat was cut, displayed and sold in 1910
Web Link: Wall Street Market during the crash of 1929
Web Link: Wall Street, Looking towards Trinity Church, New York City 1875


Section The American Jewish Immigrant Experience: Photos from the YIVO Archives
Web Link: A Dance at Grossingers, the popular Catskill Mountains resort. 1959
Web Link: Workers at the Carmel Bros. cloak making factory in NYC 1944
Web Link: A scene from Tog un nakht (Day and night by Sh. Ansky, Unzer teater Bronx, N.Y. 1923
Web Link: Sarah Eisenberg and coworkers at a women's hat factory circa World War I
Web Link: Jewish immigrants outside a shelter run by HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), New York City 1916
Web Link: Rosh Hashanah greeting card portrait of Bella Reznikov, Brooklyn 1910


Section Historic Photo Archive Exhibition
Web Link: Mail Wagon, NYC.
Web Link: Police Parade, New York City, 1890's
Web Link: Coney Island Entrance 1890's
Web Link: Tombs Prison 1890's
Web Link: Third Avenue Elevated Train 1890's
Web Link: Madison Avenue, Madison Square Gardens. New York City, ca. 1890's


Section Rebecca Lepkoff  Exhibition
Web Link: Photographs of New York's Lower East Side during the 1930's and 1940's (click on images to enlarge)
Web Link: Photos of New York City from the 1940's-Series 2  (click on images to enlarge)


Section New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Web Link: Manhattan: 46th Street (West)-6th Avenue 1904  Ambulances
Web Link: Automobiles: A Modern Way of Seeing the Metropolis  1903
Web Link: The Evolution of Manhattan (Automobiles) circa 1902
Web Link: Automobiles on Fifth Avenue 1921
Web Link: Bathing Suits 1908
Web Link: Women in Bathing Suits with parasols 1910's
Web Link: Bowery and Elevated Road, New York
Web Link: Broad Street, New York City 1893
Web Link: Stock Exchange at Broad Street 1890
Web Link: The Garment District, NYC.
Web Link: A Stage in the Thirties
Web Link: First Electric Cabs in New York 1897
Web Link: Interior of the Fish Market 1877
Web Link: Interior of the New York Stock Exchange 1885
Web Link: Newspaper Carriers
Web Link: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Building 1898
Web Link: Herald Square, Sixth Avenue, Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street.
Web Link: The Hall of an Old Tenement
Web Link: Tenement Life In New York: Rag-Pickers' Court, Mulberry Street 1879
Web Link: Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan 1935
Web Link: Automat, 977 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan 1936
Web Link: Greyhound Bus Terminal, 33rd and 34th Streets 1936
Web Link: Fifth Avenue Bus, Washington Square, Manhattan.
Web Link: Chicken Market, 55 Hester Street, Manhattan 1937


Section Leon Dolice's Vintage New York
Web Link: The Vintage New York Traveling Exhibition


Section Miscellaneous
Web Link: A Picture History of Kew Gardens, New York
Web Link: Broadway Neon Lights New York City
Web Link: New York City Transit Scenes: Past and Present
Web Link: Forgotten New York
Web Link: A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry 1860-1960 (A Brief Description)
Web Link: The Old Newspaper Row
Web Link: Union Theological Seminary 1910


Section The Joseph Brennan Exhibition
Web Link: Abandoned Stations


Section Webshots Travel Vintage New York Postcards Exhibition
Web Link: 6th Avenue Shopping District, NY 1906
Web Link: 110th St. Elevated Curve, NY 1906
Web Link: Borough Hall, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, NY 1907
Web Link: City Hall Subway Station, NY, 1906
Web Link: Curve and Brooklyn Terminal, Brooklyn Bridge 1905
Web Link: L.I. RR Depot, Richmond Hill, Long Island 1910
Web Link: Riverside Park and Drive in NY, 1906


Section Freefoto Exhibit
Web Link: 1915 Vauxhall Vintage Car
Web Link: Stutz USA Vintage Car
Web Link: A Vintage Car
Web Link: Another Vintage Car


Section The Byron Collection at the Museum of New York City
Web Link: Snow scene, Blizzard of 1899 NYC
Web Link: View of Passengers at a street car during the Blizzard of 1899
Web Link: View of people shoveling snow in front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel  1899
Web Link: View of horses with carts filled with snow along the East River at 37th St, where snow was dumped into the river.
Web Link: Immigration, Ellis Island, Ellis Island Landing 1900
Web Link: Hester Street: Buying Vegetables 1898
Web Link: Portrait of a poor immigrant family in their small tenement home. 1896
Web Link: Street Vendor selling vegetables on Hester Street 1898
Web Link: Surf Ave__Coney Island 1896
Web Link: A Crowded Board Walk at Coney Island 1896
Web Link: Theatre, Lyceum (new) 149 West 45th Street between 1903 and 1904.


Section Painting the Town: Museum of the City of New York    (An Artistic Interpretation Captured on Canvas)
Web Link: Broadway and City Hall 1818
Web Link: Burning of the Merchants' Exchange, New York, December 16th & 17th, 1835
Web Link: Fire at the Tombs circa 1842
Web Link: Annual Fair of the American Institute at Niblo's Garden 1845
Web Link: Broadway In Winter
Web Link: Moonlight Skating-Central Park, the Terrace and Lake 1878
Web Link: Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World 1886
Web Link: Laying the Tracts At Broadway and 14th Streets
Web Link: The Bowery at Night 1895
Web Link: Madison Square 1900
Web Link: Steeplechase Park circa 1898-1906
Web Link: Triangle Fire: March 25, 1911
Web Link: New York Connecting Railroad Bridge at Hell Gate 1916-1917
Web Link: East River Waterfront 1932
Web Link: 7th Avenue Subway 1931
Web Link: The Life Cafeteria 1936
Web Link: The End of an Epoch 1939
Web Link: Storefront Mission 1943
Web Link: Italian Festa
Web Link: A Mother's Pain in East Harlem 1972
Web Link: Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery 1976
Web Link: Tenth Avenue Luncheonette 1988


Section Lewis W. Hine Exhibit at the George Eastman House
Web Link: On the ferry boat leaving Ellis Island, Italian Family 1905
Web Link: Group of immigrants (mostly Germans) at Ellis Island 1926
Web Link: Immigrants being sent by rail from Ellis Island 1926
Web Link: Lunch Time at Ellis Island 1926
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