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Little Italy - vendor with wares displayed, New York

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Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

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Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

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Battery Park and upper Bay, New York City

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The Bowery, New York City. 19th century, Library of Congress collectio...

View up street, showing elevated railroad. Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Little Italy; First Ave., fiesta, New York

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Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn - Public domain city architecture photog...

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

Battery Park-extreme southern part of Manhattan Island-Elevated Railwa...

H14665 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright 1902 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount: Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J., Littleton, N.H., Washington, D.C. No. 1.

Manhattan Life Building, New York City

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Interior N.Y. subway, 14th St. to 42nd St. /

The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially constructed work car on a parallel track. At the time of filming, t... More

[Anarchists - casualties of anarchist riot, Union Square] Taken 20 sec...

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Socialist parade in Union Square, New York

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Manhattan Bridge, made March 23rd, 1909

Marine terminal in foreground; bridge under construction in background. H127329 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York. No. D-441.

[New York, N.Y., Wall Street] - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Public domain photograph of New York City, Broadway, downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edw. Lauterbach - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Edward Lauterbach (1844-1923), chairman of the Republican County Committee of New York State. In 1913 Lauterbach was the defense attorney for David Lamar, the "Wolf of Wall Street." (Source: Flick... More

Cornelius Lehane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Cornelius Lehane at "the cottage" in Union Square, New York City speaking during a Socialist anti-war rally against World War I. The sign reads "War is hell, Socialism alone stands for brotherh... More

Tearing down Morgan bldg. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows the demolition of the J.P. Morgan Bank at 23 Wall Street, New York City, in April and May of 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project and New York Times, May 1, 1913)

Sullivan funeral - Bowery - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows funeral for New York Tammany Hall politician Timothy (Big Tim) Daniel Sullivan (1862-1913) which took place at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, the Bowery, New York City, Sept. 15, 1913. (Source: Flickr... More

Union Sq., 5/1/14 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a Socialist and labor union demonstration celebrating International Labor Day (May Day) in Union Square, New York City, May 1, 1914. (Source: Library staff and New York Times, May 2, 1914)

Anarchist bombings, New York City

Wall Street explosion. Automobile lying on its side in foreground. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). C... More

Vera Cruz dead -- scene in Battery Park

Photograph beginning of the ceremonial procession in New York City, before the National Memorial Service on May 11, 1914 in honor of the seamen and marines who were killed in Veracruz, Mexico during the Mexican... More

Ferry boat, New York - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows the Ferry Weehawken that ran between Weehawken, New Jersey and the Manhattan terminals at 42nd Street and Cortlandt Street, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data... More

W.H. Taft - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows former president William Howard Taft campaigning for Republican candidate Charles Evans Hughes on Nov. 4, 1916 in Union Square, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

W.H. Taft - A group of men standing next to each other in front of a c...

Photograph shows former president William Howard Taft campaigning for Republican candidate Charles Evans Hughes on Nov. 4, 1916 in Union Square, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Woolworth Building, New York City

Aerial view of Woolworth Building looking northeast from lower Manhattan. J217507 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by American Studio, N.Y.

[New York City, including the Lower East Side, from Manhattan Bridge]

J222067 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright Detroit Publishing Co. Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain image... More

Mascots on RECRUIT - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Bodies of a few of those killed in Wall Street bomb outrage ... a bomb...

Photograph shows covered corpses lying on the street. No. S-289208-11. Accession box no. DLC/PP-1971:022 c1 f5

Wall St. bomb - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo taken at the site of the Wall Street terrorist bombing, Sept. 16, 1920, in the New York City financial district. (Source: Library staff, 2008)

The fall flower show at P.S. 15, Manhattan

On slide (printed): "Department of Public Education" and "Prepared by American Museum of Natural History [...]." Slide for lecturing on city and suburban gardens. Title, date, and subject information provided b... More

Museum of the City of New York, 5th Ave. and 103rd St., New York City....

Public domain photograph of life and commerce in the New YorkCity in1940s-1950s, interiors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bank of the Manhattan Company, Bayside, Long Island. Interior I

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Buildings from Battery Park. New York City

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Skyline, midtown Manhattan, New York City

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

New York, New York. Waiting room of the Pennsylvania railroad station

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New York, New York. Mourners at the funeral of Carlo Tresca, the Itali...

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New York, New York. Times Square on a rainy day

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manhattan Beach Housing Project, New York City. Living room II

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Portrait of Art Hodes and Henry (Clay) Goodwin, Times Square, New Yor...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 265 (gottlieb assignment) 265 (assign... More

[Portrait of Art Hodes, Henry (Clay) Goodwin, Sandy Williams, and Ceci...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 265 (gottlieb assignment) 265 (assign... More

Loew's State Theater, Times Square. Balcony II

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[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Model under construction i...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[Paul Rudolph's apartment in Manhattan. Lighting treatment with mirror...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Aerial view of New York City from the East River toward midtown Manhat...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view of New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view of New York City, with a focus on the Twin Towers of the W...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken one month before the towers fell i... More

Our grief is not a cry for war / Jim Costanzo.

Photograph shows artists standing in formation on the street at Union Square or Times Square in New York City wearing dust masks and signs with the text: "Our grief is not a cry for war." Part of a performance ... More

The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More

The Gates Art, Central Park, New York, New York

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 miles of pathways in February 2005. From each gate hung a panel of deep saffron-colored nylon fabric. C... More

The Gates Art, Central Park, New York, New York

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 miles of pathways in February 2005. From each gate hung a panel of deep saffron-colored nylon fabric. C... More

The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More

A view of the Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn, one of New York City's ...

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

Produce stand in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York ...

Chinatown, said to be, as of 2018, the highest concentration of people of Chinese heritage in the Western Hemisphere with an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one o... More

Lily Helmstetler, left, from Chesapeake, Ohio, and Mclaine Dickinson, ...

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

Scene in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York City

Chinatown, said to be, as of 2018, the highest concentration of people of Chinese heritage in the Western Hemisphere with an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one o... More

A classic brownstone apartment building in the Harlem neighborhood of ...

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

New York City skyline view - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

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

Street scene in the Harlem neighborhood of upper Manhattan borough, on...

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

Wall Street, N.Y. 1847 / drawn from nature by Aug. Köllner ; from lith...

Courtesy of MacKay & Co. Public domain photograph of port, ship docks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wall Street, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Stereograph showing a statue of George Washington on right and Trinity Chapel in background. J225969 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 1009.

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Villard Houses, 451-457 Madison Avenue & 24 East Fifty-first Street, N...

Significance: Appearing as a single Italian palazzo, the Villard Houses were actually six residences built around a central courtyard by architects, McKim, Mead and White. One of the firm's earliest works, this... More

Old John Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 44-46 John Street, New Yor...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29, FN-52 Survey number: HABS NY-4-27 Building/structure dates: 1841 Initial Construction

Old John Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 44-46 John Street, New Yor...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29, FN-52 Survey number: HABS NY-4-27 Building/structure dates: 1841 Initial Construction

Manhattan Beach - Public domain American music sheet

132 West Fourth Street (Building), New York, New York County, NY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-66 Survey number: HABS NY-448 Building/structure dates: 1839 Initial Construction

132 West Fourth Street (Building), New York, New York County, NY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-66 Survey number: HABS NY-448 Building/structure dates: 1839 Initial Construction

Dunbar Apartments, 246 West 150th Street, New York, New York County, N...

Survey number: HABS NY-5697 Public domain photograph of New York historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

6 Greenwich Street (House), New York, New York County, NY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-75, FN-76 Survey number: HABS NY-473 Building/structure dates: ca. 1815 Initial Construction

6 Greenwich Street (House), New York, New York County, NY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-75, FN-76 Survey number: HABS NY-473 Building/structure dates: ca. 1815 Initial Construction

John Hazlet House, 204-206 West Thirteenth Street, New York, New York ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-62 Survey number: HABS NY-444 Building/structure dates: 1835 Initial Construction

Edwin Forrest House, 436 West Twenty-second Street, New York, New York...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25, FN-36, FN-37 Survey number: HABS NY-4-14 Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, 31 Barclay Street, New York, New Yo...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-26, FN-27, FN-28 Survey number: HABS NY-4-3 Building/structure dates: 1785 Initial Construction

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, 31 Barclay Street, New York, New Yo...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-26, FN-27, FN-28 Survey number: HABS NY-4-3 Building/structure dates: 1785 Initial Construction

The procession approaching Union Square. New York (state) 19th Century...

Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession on Broadway heading towards Union Square. The building on the left is the home of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt. (Sour... More

U. S. Custom House, 28 Wall Street, New York, New York County, NY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-72, FN-326 Survey number: HABS NY-470 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000889

U. S. Custom House, 28 Wall Street, New York, New York County, NY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-72, FN-326 Survey number: HABS NY-470 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000889

U. S. Custom House, 28 Wall Street, New York, New York County, NY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-72, FN-326 Survey number: HABS NY-470 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000889

U. S. Custom House, 28 Wall Street, New York, New York County, NY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-72, FN-326 Survey number: HABS NY-470 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000889

David Walker House & Office, 45 Whitehall Street, New York, New York C...

Survey number: HABS NY-5455 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George Washington Bridge, Spanning Hudson River between Manhattan & Fo...

Significance: At the time of its construction, the George Washington Bridge was the longest span suspension bridge in the world. Survey number: HAER NY-129

George Washington Bridge, Spanning Hudson River between Manhattan & Fo...

Significance: At the time of its construction, the George Washington Bridge was the longest span suspension bridge in the world. Survey number: HAER NY-129

George Washington Bridge, Spanning Hudson River between Manhattan & Fo...

Significance: At the time of its construction, the George Washington Bridge was the longest span suspension bridge in the world. Survey number: HAER NY-129

George Washington Bridge, Spanning Hudson River between Manhattan & Fo...

Significance: At the time of its construction, the George Washington Bridge was the longest span suspension bridge in the world. Survey number: HAER NY-129

George Washington Bridge, Spanning Hudson River between Manhattan & Fo...

Significance: At the time of its construction, the George Washington Bridge was the longest span suspension bridge in the world. Survey number: HAER NY-129