#nycarchives

[route22ny]

The Manhattan approach to the Williamsburg Bridge, on February 16, 1910.  Photo from nycarchives on instagram.  (Don’t be fooled by that “1900″ in the lower right: the Williamsburg Bridge didn’t open until 1903.)

[areyoureallymyfriend]

Act Fast Friday. For one week, one print, $50. •••This week an excerpt from page 163 of Are you really my friend? The book. ...shelves and shelves of city blueprints, hand-bound leather books with census data in cursive writing, and boxes of crime-scene evidence.  Quinn pulls out and 8x10 black and white negative, holding it up to the light, three of us gather around-a murder? •••New York City Department of Records, 2015, Archival pigment print, 10x10”. •••Link in bio. #actfastfriday #areyoureallymyfriend #massmoca #nycarchives (at NYC Department of Records)

[furryalligator]

#Repost @nycarchives (@get_repost) ・・・ This view of the Manhattan Bridge from #DUMBO is a constant here on @Instagram. Our #TBT version was taken in 1908, 18 months prior to the bridge’s completion. #throwbackthursday #NYC #nycarchives #bridge

[sundaymuse]

#WCW #blackwomen #leadership #friends #nycarchives #Repost @nycarchives with @repostapp ・・・ #WomenTrailblazerWednesday: This week’s pioneer is Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Norton is pictured here being sworn in by NYC Mayor Abe Beame for a second term as Chair of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, on March 8th, 1974 (International Women’s Day). Beside her are Mrs. Coretta Scott King (who was continuing her late husband’s fight for social justice) and Representative Shirley Chisholm (the first African American Congresswoman). As chair of the @nycchr, Norton held the first hearings in the country on discrimination against women. Norton fulfilled her role as chair while simultaneously representing a group of 46 female Newsweek staff members in their complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Norton argued to the EEOC – an organization she would later become the first woman to chair - that there was systematic discrimination in the hiring and promotion practices at the magazine.  After three years, Newsweek agreed to specific goals and a timetable for hiring women. Norton has spent her career devoted to issues, such as worker’s rights, pay equity for women, fair housing, and human rights. Now in her 13th term as Congresswoman for the District of Columbia, Norton continues to be a national figure in the civil rights and feminist movement. #WTW #nycarchives