The Museum of the City of New York has released a ton of photos of the Manhattan Railway Company, which operated the city’s elevated railway lines at the turn of the 20th century. Squeee!
h/t @Gothamist
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May 13, 2013
April 25, 2013
The Woolsworth Building turned 100 yesterday
March 12, 2013
1899 - Fifth Avenue at night, looking north from 44th St. The artist is Charles W Jefferys, This illustration comes courtesy of the New York Public Library’s amazing digital archive.
March 7, 2013
Ernest Hemingway and model Jean Patchett, sitting on a sofa in Hemingway’s farmhouse in Cuba. Photo taken by Clifford Coffin, Nov. 15, 1950, for Vogue Magazine. I love this photo.
Coffin’s photo is in a book I picked up from the Strand the other night: Vogue: The Editor’s Eye. I’ve vowed not to buy any more (physical) books and I have enough photo books besides, but I liked the book’s focus on the influence of editors, though it doesn’t show much of the process. Mostly, there’s just a bunch of interesting photos, like Ernest Hemingway shirtless and petting a cat.
February 11, 2013
Apparently, it’s always been hard to find a cab during New York blizzards.
1893 ‘Winter on Fifth Avenue’ - Alfred Stieglitz, via retronaut
February 8, 2013
A couple more photos that the Bowery Boys blog posted in its remembrance of the deadly blizzard of 1888 that struck New York 125 years ago. Check out the post for more fascinating info while waiting for Nemo’s wrath.
February 4, 2013
This is a black-and-white version of a Times Square photo I took a few weeks ago. You can see the original here. The color of Times Square’s lights are usually interesting, but I love the way the black-and-white rendition really emphasizes the magnitude of the powered billboards in contrast to everything else in the scene.
January 21, 2013
Radio City Line & Fifth Avenue Crowds, as taken by Yale Joel for LIFE in 1961
January 3, 2013
Manhattan’s skyline, 1880 to 1932.
This amazing series of photos was featured in TIME Magazine’s LIFE Aug 31, 1942 issue, “New York’s Skyline Sits for a Long Portrait.” The photos come from two amateurs of the Pierrepont family: John Jay Pierrepont, “a wealthy New Yorker”, was inspired from his Brooklyn rooftop view and took hundreds of photos from the vantage point until his death in 1923. His great-nephew, Abbot Low Moffat, continued the tradition until the Pierrepont home was bought by the city of New York to turn into a public park.
When Pierrepont took the first photos in 1880, church steeples and ship masts are the tallest structures, with the most recognizable landmark being Trinity Church on lower Broadway. By 1930, the lower Manhattan skyline was dominated by towers after the building boom.
Read the original article at Google Archives.
December 27, 2012
From the Library of Congress: Night lights of Manhattan; Night view past tug on river to series of dots forming the night lights of Manhattan, outline of buildings barely visible against dark background. Drawing on black paper. Artist: Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
December 20, 2012
Bridge construction photos from the TIME LIFE magazine archives.
George Washington Bridge under construction, 1927
Queensboro Bridge under construction, 1907
Manhattan Bridge under construction. 1907
December 13, 2012
NYC Dim out, Times Square, April 1942. By William C. Shrout for Time LIFE
November 26, 2012
Check out this feature from LIFE Magazine back when the U.N. Secretariat building was constructed. The caption/deck reads: “Windows of late-working secretary-general’s office look west over city 38th floor”. Via the Google LIFE archive, Mar 26, 1951.
November 19, 2012
God I’ve always wanted to do this: canoe party on the Hudson River. Photo via LIFE Magazine, Sept. 1948, by Tony Linck.
November 15, 2012
How New Yorkers on Fifth Avenue handled the snow, in 1905. Via the @NYPL’s endlessly fascinating digital archive.
Photo credit to: Detroit Photographic Co.
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