[View of B.T. Babbitt's "best soap" factory buildings, New York City] ...
Drawing from elevated perspective shows a soap factory, roof tops, street activity, and 9th Avenue elevated railroad, looking northwest across the Hudson River to the New Jersey Palisades. Inscribed upper righ... More
New York City--The development of rapid transit - the first train on t...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 46, no. 1,182 (1878 May 25), p. 201.
Looking along the Bridge from Brooklyn to New York
83938 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1899, by Strohmeyer & Wyman. Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, New York; London; Toronto-Canada; Ottawa-Kansas.
Flatiron Building, New York, N.Y.
Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30841. Title devised by cataloger. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 062021. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Broadway and Times Building (One Times Square), New York City
Title from jacket. "Dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033879. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Election night in New York -- Times B'ld'g. and the "Great White Way" ...
H89656 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.). Patented April 14, 1903. No. 69.
Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...
Box. no. 3. No. 544. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated line...
High Line was created on the abandoned New York Central Railroad West Side Line in Manhattan. Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the spur was redesigned as a "living system... More
Looking down on New York's skyscrapers--from Woolworth Tower (S.W.) ov...
Stereograph showing an elevated view looking down on various skyscrapers. J218946 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 16774.
Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell & Surf Avenues, Br...
Significance: The Stillwell Avenue Station was built as part of a massive expansion and unification of New York City's subway system known as the Dual System of Rapid Transit, which was one of the largest civil... More
Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell & Surf Avenues, Br...
Significance: The Stillwell Avenue Station was built as part of a massive expansion and unification of New York City's subway system known as the Dual System of Rapid Transit, which was one of the largest civil... More
Manhattan Bridge, Spanning East River at Flatbush Avenue, between New ...
Significance: This single span suspension bridge contains one of the longest suspension spans in the U.S., and had the largest carrying capacity in the country when it was built. It is unusual in that it was d... More
Ellis Island, Ferry Building, New York Harbor, New York, New York Coun...
Survey number: HABS NY-6086-D Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000058
Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Spanning East River between Whitestone, Queen...
Survey number: HAER NY-308 Building/structure dates: 1939 Initial Construction
Macombs Dam Bridge, Spanning Harlem River Between 155th Street Viaduct...
Significance: The bridge was designed by eminent structural engineer Alfred Pancoast Boller and was a considerable municipal endeavor as well as a significant engineering feat. It is the third oldest major bri... More
Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-fi...
Significance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels ... More
Main St. & Shelton Square, Buffalo, N.Y.
J160250 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. H. Brandel; September 21, 1911; DLC/PP-1911:44357. Copyright claimant's address: Buffalo, N.Y.
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Herald Square and New York Herald office, home of a great American new...
H41141 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1904 by William H. Rau. No. 5626.
Mott Street, New York, N.Y - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Chinatown. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018616. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
"L" Station, Chatham Square, New York
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "2798 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018620. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Excavating the site for the new Subway Station of the Pennsylvania Rai...
H114073 U.S. Copyright Office No. 14246. Public domain photograph of New York, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Incline from subway to suburban concourse, Grand Central Terminal, N.Y...
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072975. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
[Suffrage demonstration at Park Row, New York City]
George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Subway porter, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows an African American women with a duster, working as a subway porter at a subway station, New York City, 1917. Numberr on cap says: "IRT 3594 Porter." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Tit... More
The hall of iron, Pennsylvania Station, New York
Prints shows passengers in the steel-and-glass concourse of Pennsylvania Station. [His Railroad series] Wuerth, 703. Edition of 50? Inscription on plate in reverse: The Hall of Iron P R R. Signed and dated on p... More
[52nd Street, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1948]
Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 464 (gottlieb assignment) 464 (assign... More
Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell & Surf Avenues, Br...
Significance: The Stillwell Avenue Station was built as part of a massive expansion and unification of New York City's subway system known as the Dual System of Rapid Transit, which was one of the largest civil... More
Manhattan Bridge, Spanning East River at Flatbush Avenue, between New ...
Significance: This single span suspension bridge contains one of the longest suspension spans in the U.S., and had the largest carrying capacity in the country when it was built. It is unusual in that it was d... More
Manhattan Bridge, Spanning East River at Flatbush Avenue, between New ...
Significance: This single span suspension bridge contains one of the longest suspension spans in the U.S., and had the largest carrying capacity in the country when it was built. It is unusual in that it was d... More
Path Transit System Bridge, Spanning Hackensack River, Kearny, Hudson ...
Significance: This structure is one of a series of bridges constructed in the early twentieth century to carry railroad lines through northern New Jersey towards New York City. It is a skewed vertical lift bri... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Lackawanna Terminal, Main Str...
Significance: The terminal's double deck train shed, attributed to Lincoln Bush, is considered to be significant as an early example of the innovative use of reinforced concrete. Unprocessed Field note materia... More
The Rail road suspension bridge: near Niagara Falls
Print shows sightseers on the lower left at the edge of the Niagara River with a railroad suspension bridge at center and Niagara Falls in the distance. Caption continues: Length of bridge 822 feet, height abo... More
South Street Seaport, Piers 17 & 18, South Street into East River at F...
Significance: Piers 17 and 18, located in the South Street Historic District Extension, stand as physical evidence of the water-oriented economy of New York City in its developmental years. The current piers w... More
Macombs Dam Bridge, Spanning Harlem River Between 155th Street Viaduct...
Significance: The bridge was designed by eminent structural engineer Alfred Pancoast Boller and was a considerable municipal endeavor as well as a significant engineering feat. It is the third oldest major bri... More
Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-fi...
Significance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels ... More
Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-fi...
Significance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels ... More
Pennsylvania Station, New York Terminal Service Plant, 250 West Thirty...
Significance: The New York Terminal Service Plant was constructed as an integral component of the original Pennsylvania Station complex and served as a power generation and control center for the station, its t... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Fireboat EDWARD M. COTTER, Moored on the Buffalo River at 155 Ohio Str...
Significance: According to the National Historic Landmark nomination, Fireboat EDWARD M. COTTER has the distinction of being not only the oldest operating fireboat in the Great Lakes, but also in the United Sta... More
Grand Central Post Office Annex, Forty-fifth Street & Lexington Avenue...
Significance: The Grand Central Post Office Annex was envisioned as a key element of the Grand Central Station complex, one of the most important example of monumental urban planning in the United States. Desig... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
West 55th Street & West 56th Street Piers, Hudson River at West Fifty-...
Significance: The piers at West 55th and West 56th streets are important and rare remains of historic transatlantic commerce in the Port of New York, being two of only three municipal piers built for this traff... More
Hook Windmill, North Main Street at Pantigo Road, East Hampton, Suffol...
Significance: The Hook Windmill is one of eleven surviving 18th and early 19th century wind-powered gristmills on Long Island. The mill is one of three extant windmills built by Nathaniel Dominy V, a prominent... More
Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, N...
Significance: The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) jointly designated, on May 2, 1984, the Holland Tunnel as an engineering landmark "... in rec... More
Children playing in street, New York
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
Pat Keenan, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows a ticket booth, with Pat Keenan, possibly on the Broadway subway line in New York City which opened in 1918. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Ser... More
Map of the new subway of greater New York : (Interborrow system)
Folded title. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Fifth Avenue at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Waiting for an uptown bus. ...
Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of people waiting at a train station. Office o...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
A black and white photo of a crowd of people. Office of War Informatio...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...
Box. no. 3. No. 584. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...
Box. no. 3. No. 535. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated line...
High Line was created on the abandoned New York Central Railroad West Side Line in Manhattan. Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the spur was redesigned as a "living system... More
Elevated railroad, Coenties Slip, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
Stereograph showing two street railroad trains traveling in opposite directions, on elevated railroad tracks, passing by buildings in the city. H78983 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1899, by B.L. Singley. No. 569.
Herald Square, junction of Broadway and Sixth Ave., N. showing elevate...
H89775 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1907 by Underwood & Underwood. U78529. On mount: Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J., Washington, D.C. No. 5317.
Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell & Surf Avenues, Br...
Significance: The Stillwell Avenue Station was built as part of a massive expansion and unification of New York City's subway system known as the Dual System of Rapid Transit, which was one of the largest civil... More
Thirtieth Street Station, Load Dispatch Center, Thirtieth & Market Str...
Significance: It was designed to visually and aurally indicate the operating status of the railroad's power system. This particular load dispatch center monitors and supervises electrical loads and power supply... More
Greenwich Street Study (Plot plan), New York, New York County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-472-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1852 Initial Construction
Path Transit System Bridge, Spanning Hackensack River, Kearny, Hudson ...
Significance: This structure is one of a series of bridges constructed in the early twentieth century to carry railroad lines through northern New Jersey towards New York City. It is a skewed vertical lift bri... More
Williamsburg Bridge, Spanning East River at South Sixth Street between...
Significance: The Williamsburg Bridge is the longest span suspension bridge over the East River, its span exceeding that of the Brooklyn Bridge by 4.5 feet. Survey number: HAER NY-128 Building/structure dates... More
Macombs Dam Bridge, Spanning Harlem River Between 155th Street Viaduct...
Significance: The bridge was designed by eminent structural engineer Alfred Pancoast Boller and was a considerable municipal endeavor as well as a significant engineering feat. It is the third oldest major bri... More
Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-fi...
Significance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels ... More
Pennsylvania Station, New York Terminal Service Plant, 250 West Thirty...
Significance: The New York Terminal Service Plant was constructed as an integral component of the original Pennsylvania Station complex and served as a power generation and control center for the station, its t... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (Original Line), New York, New York ...
Significance: The IRT was New York City's first subway. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N508 Survey number: HAER NY-122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1904 Initial Construction
Fireboat EDWARD M. COTTER, Moored on the Buffalo River at 155 Ohio Str...
Significance: According to the National Historic Landmark nomination, Fireboat EDWARD M. COTTER has the distinction of being not only the oldest operating fireboat in the Great Lakes, but also in the United Sta... More
Grand Central Post Office Annex, Forty-fifth Street & Lexington Avenue...
Significance: The Grand Central Post Office Annex was envisioned as a key element of the Grand Central Station complex, one of the most important example of monumental urban planning in the United States. Desig... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...
Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More
Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, N...
Significance: The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) jointly designated, on May 2, 1984, the Holland Tunnel as an engineering landmark "... in rec... More
Labor Day parade, Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y.
Title from jacket. "Xtra" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032176. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Looking N.E. over the curve of the Manhattan elevated railway at 110th...
H42455 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount: Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J., Littleton, N.H., Washington, D.C. No. 2.
Italian neighborhood with street market, Mulberry Street, New York
Title devised by cataloger. "G 349" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09349. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
City street view, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows an automobile parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City, welcoming suffragist Sara Bard Field on November 26, 1915. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013 and similar Bain negative LC-B2-3681-8) Tit... More
[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Model, transit hub]
Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.
[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Model, wide view with tran...
Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.
[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Section with monorail]
Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. Conservation no. 8.10.2396.12.
A scene reminiscent of those depicted in movie high-speed chases benea...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More
Atlantic Ave. Avenue, subway entrance, Brooklyn, N.Y
"Entrance to Long Island Railroad" over arched doors at right. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072144. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Along the noted Bowery, New York
Photograph shows elevated railroad, delivery wagons, buildings and people in lower Manhattan. 83936 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, New... More
Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York C...
Significance: The municipal Ferry pier is the last remaining ferry terminal on the East River and shows the expression of the beaux arts style in structural steel. Survey number: HAER NY-90 Building/structure... More