Vintage New York

A look into the past of New York. Most images are gathered from the Library of Congress, NYPL, The U.S. National Archives, MCNY, and similar places or from personal collections sent over and have no known copyright restrictions. Please advise if you notice any information that needs to be corrected or have a copyright issue that needs to be addressed using the Comments & Inquiries section below.

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China in NY - 4th of July Parade

ca. 1910-1915

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Carriers Setting Out on Their Daily Rounds

1936

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Queens Airport - New York International Airport - TWA

Manley C DeBevoise

¤ This abandoned airport is currently under construction to become a hotel: http://twaflightcenterhotel.com/

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Manhattan: 42nd Street (West) - 6th Avenue

1928

Ewing Galloway

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Coney Island

January 3, 1915

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Run on East Side Bank

February 16, 1912

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Image from page 16 of "Hudson & Manhattan tunnels : uniting New York and New Jersey in picture and story." 

1908

Text Appearing Before Image:

...vestors in the undertaking. Heunfolded his plans and needs to Pliny Fisk and William M. Barnum, of the financial firm of Harvey Fisk & Sons in such a straightforward and business-like way as to win the confidence and hearty cooperation of these masters of conservative banking, among whose clients are numbered many of the countrys richest conservative investors. The young lawyer convinced the bankers of the possibility, the urgent necessity, and the profitable income to be derived from an investment in these tunnels and they undertook the financing of the enterprise. The New York and Jersey Tunnel Company was organized in February, 1902, to take over the title, franchise and other interests in and to the long-defunct preceding companies. The new company purchased new and modern machinery and equipment,secured the services of the best engineering talent the country could afford, and quietly but honestly set to work to finish the tunnel under the Hudson from Hoboken to Morton street, New York.

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The tunnel, now known as the south tube, was completed in 1905, and the north tube, which parallels it, at a distance of about thirty feet, was put through. And thesetunnels, that we are about to inspect, were opened to the public on Tuesday, February25, 1908, by President Theodore Roosevelt, Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York,and Governor John Franklin Fort of New Jersey. Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company. The New York and Jersey Tunnel Com-pany was organized and financed merely to complete the old tunnel, so for the construction of additional tunnels and terminals, a new company had to be formed, and that company was the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company, which was organized in May, 1904, with William G. McAdoo, as president. Where the Tunnels Lead. These McAdoo tunnels enter Manhattan Island at the foot of Christopher street, where they connect with a subway constructed and operated by the Hudson and Manhattan company, extending up Christopher street to Sixth avenue, thence...

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Madison Sq Garden

ca. 1910-1915

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Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York

1901

The Pan-American Exposition was a World’s Fair held in Buffalo, New York. Read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Exposition

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Aerial Shot of NYC

1920

Image from page 36 of "Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures 

 Text Appearing Before Image: Pastoral scene of the extreme north end of Manhattan Island, Inwood Heights Text Appearing After Image: Anything but a pastoral scene—the extreme southern end of the same island Hudson/John Fiske tells us, was a notable in-stance of the irony of human destiny. In all that heattempted he failed; yet he achieved great results thatwere not contemplated in his original plans. He started two immense industries—the Spitzenbergen whale fish-eries and the Hudson Bay fur trade, now the world renowned Hudsons Bay Company; and he brought the Dutch to Manhattan Island. No realization of hisdreams, however, could have approached the astonish-ing reality which would have greeted him could he havelooked through the coming centuries and caught a glimpseof what the voyager now beholds in sailing up the bayof New York. But what perhaps would have surprised him mostof all would have been to learn that his name was*tobecome part of the folk lore of the beautiful river towhich it is attached; that he was to figure as a Dutch-man instead of an Englishman in both legend and story;that when it is thunder weat

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Photographer William Merritt Chase’s 10th Street Studio

1900

- William Merritt Chase

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New York’s Old Horse Drawn Fire Engine

ca. 1910-1915

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Italian Pupils - NY Schools

ca. 1910-1915

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Map of the City of New York

circa 1850

- Perris & Hutchinson

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Bicycles at Bedford & Atlantic Avenues in Brooklyn

1896

- Edgar S Thompson

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New York & Bridges from Brooklyn

1913

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Letter Carriers in NYC

1952