new york city

The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skys...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 33-story building was developed by Cousins Properties from November 2001 to December 2003. It was the first high- rise building t... More

Gillender Building, New York City. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

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City Hall subway station, New York

St. Paul Building, New York City

Historic Sites

Irving Trust Bldg., 1 Wall St.

JO8624 U.S. Copyright Office. No. C 20599. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc., N.Y.C.

View of Lower Manhattan from the Manhattan Bridge, September 11, 2001

The south prospect of the city of New York in America

Print shows the waterfront on the south side of New York City with ships and boats in the foreground; prominent features numbered, legend not included.

Plan of the city of New York ; An exact prospect of Charlestown : the ...

New York City map shows streets, wharves, ferries, principal buildings, and built-up area. Charleston view is panorama of waterfront and quays with principal buildings lettered for identification (no index pres... More

A south east view of the city of New York, in North America Vue de sud...

Print shows two men sitting on a knoll under a tree in the foreground and a distant view of New York City with King's College, now Columbia University, the most prominent building visible. Title from item. Prin... More

Plan of the city of New York, in North America: surveyed in the years ...

Cartouche showing allegorical scene with an English trader standing on the shore among barrels and bundles of merchandise and a Native wearing feathered headdress and skirt standing among barrels. Title from it... More

Incendie de New-York / dessiné par le Barbier peintre du Roi ; gravé p...

Print shows a riot in New York City and several buildings on fire. Title from item. Illus. in: Essais historiques et politiques sur les Anglo-Américains, ... / par M. Hilliard d'Auberteuil .... Bruxelles : 1782... More

View of the federal ediface in New York

Print shows exterior view of Federal Hall, designated the site of the federal government in 1788, New York City, New York. Title from item. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphi... More

To the inhabitants of the Ward of the City of New York, being the Coll...

City Hall, New York

A view of Cooke's tomb in St. Paul's Church yard, N. York / painted an...

Print shows the actor Edmund Kean standing with another man, identified as "the physician who attended Mr. Cooke in his last illness", next to the monument Kean had erected in honor of George Frederick Cooke in... More

A gone case. A scene in Wall-Street

A comic scene representing two New York city political factions, the Whigs and the radical Democrats (or "Loco Focos"), as scuffling newsboys. The scene takes place before the half-built Customs House, where se... More

A Democratic voter. Book illustration from Library of Congress

The artist satirizes the split in party loyalties between the Locofoco and Tammany factions of New York City Democrats. In particular he belittles the Irish immigrants widely recruited by the party at the time... More

Working men, attention!! it is your imperious duty to drop your hammer...

Broadsides relating to American labor organization activities. Reference copy may be available in Lot 4403. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card t... More

Triumphal procession of the eagle and other birds, at the April electi...

A parade of jubilant New York City Whigs, led by successful mayoral candidate Aaron Clark (at right, with walking stick). Clark, who defeated Tammany candidate John J. Morgan in the Spring election, walks arm-i... More

The death of old Tammany and his wife Loco Foco

A satirical view of the heavy losses suffered by Loco Foco and Tammany factions of the New York City Democratic party in the municipal elections of April 1837. The vote brought about not only the defeat of Tam... More

New edition of MacBeth. Bank-oh's! Ghost

Another satire on the Panic of 1837, again condemning Van Buren's continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies as the source of the crisis. Clay shows the president haunted by the ghost of C... More

The treasury-hen alarmed

A portrayal of Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury as a hen nurturing corruption and shielding New York City customs house officials from congressional scrutiny. Woodbury spreads his wings over several chicks pec... More

The last card. Tip overthrown

A satire on the controversy surrounding charges of election fraud against New York State tobacco inspector James B. Glentworth and other Whigs during the election of 1838. The allegations were made two years l... More

Castle Garden in New York

Drawing shows Castle Garden, now known as Castle Clinton in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan, New York, from the water.

[Castle Garden from the water]

Drawing shows Castle Garden, now known as Castle Clinton in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan, New York, from the water.

Gov. Seward's letter or the triumph of liberality and justice

A dramatic prison scene, intended to contrast the clemency of New York's Whig governor William H. Seward with the vindictiveness of the Democrat-controlled New York City prison administration. In the interior o... More

Trouble in the Spartan ranks. Old Durham in the field

A complex and somewhat obscure satire celebrating the defeat of Dorrite Democrats in the Rhode Island state elections of spring 1843. The canvass was held the year following the successful suppression of the Do... More

The mountain in labor

The artist employs Aesop's fable about the mountain which was said to be in labor, its dreadful groans attracting expectant crowds only to be disappointed when it issued forth a small mouse. Here the mountain i... More

Panoramic view of New York, from the East River

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Havell.

Panoramic view of New York. (taken from the North River)

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Havell.

[A. Oakey Hall, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eyes fr...

Mayor of New York City. Identification from engraving of a later photograph by Sarony in Daily graphic, March 31, 1883, p. 221. Scratched on back of plate: 109; Oakey Hall. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DL... More

[Shepherd Knapp, half-length portrait, slightly to right, eyes front]

Leather merchant and later a banker in New York City. Scratched on face of plate: 206; Shepherd Knapp. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of ... More

[Walter Restored Jones, half-length portrait, nearly in profile to lef...

Founder of Atlantic Mutual Marine Insurance Co., of New York City. Alternative identifications: Walter Reston Jones, d. 1855; Walter Jones of Washington; Walter James. Scratched on back of plate: 31; [illegible... More

[Unidentified man, about 45 years of age, half-length portrait, slight...

Scratched on back of plate: 91; 289 [cancelled] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Identifie... More

Magdalen Female Benevolent Asylum, between 88th and 89th street, W. of...

New York City ; exterior. Illus. in: The Magdalen Female Benevolent Society, Eleventh Annual Report...1844 May 10. Reference copy may be in LOT 4399. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.... More

Pickpocket on the Battery

Print shows a man picking the pocket of another man in New York City. Also shows page of text. Illus. in: National Police Gazette, New York, 1846 April 4, front page. No ref. copy. This record contains unverifi... More

The available party trying to get their villany endorsed by the every ...

Again partisan bitterness, over the perceived Whig betrayal of Henry Clay's hopes for the presidential nomination and over subsequent efforts to obtain Clay's endorsement of Zachary Taylor's candidacy, is vente... More

New-York, in 1849 / drawn by E. Purcell ; engraved by S. Weekes.

Title from item. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card.

Grand Presidential sweep-stakes for 1849

The Free Soil sympathies of the cartoonist are evident in his portrayal of the 1848 presidential contest as a race between the three major candidates. The contenders are on the course. Whig candidate Zachary T... More

New York city hall, park and environs

493 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bachmann, John.

[Lampshade design with six views: "Kansas", "Jefferson City", "Erie R....

Title devised by Library staff. Stamped on lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Troy, N.Y - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Magnus, C. Purchase, Hubbard Fund, 1965.

City of New-York, Brooklyn, Jersey City & Quarantine Station on Staten...

Small panoramic print shows the waterfront of New York City and New Jersey ca. 1850. Places identified include: Jersey City; Hoboken; Bedlow's Island; Ellis Island; Hudson River; Robbins Reef Light House; New-Y... More

Grand reception of Kossuth: "the champion of Hungarian Independence" a...

Seventeen figures of insects and parts of their bodies

Lithograph by Ackerman, New York City, in book by Howard Stansbury. Illus. in: An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Plate IX. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. ... More

Harmony in the wigwam! Democracy of the right brand-y

A comic scene ridiculing the Tammany Democrats of New York City. Tammany headquarters, known as the "Wigwam," here erupts in a drunken fracas over the Democratic platform for the presidential race of 1852. The ... More

A new map for travellers through the United States of America showing ...

General map of the eastern United States. Indicates concentric circles at 100-mile intervals from New York City. Scale ca. 1:4,250,000. Insets: Railway route from Philadelphia to Washington. 3 x 13 cm.--Railway... More

A bird's eye view of the city of New York View of Galveston, Texas.

Illustration showing a bird's eye view of New York City looking toward Battery Park (?) and a view of Galveston from the bay, boats and ships in foreground. Illus. in: Gleason's pictorial, v. 2, no. 20 (1852 M... More

The North Pennsylvania Rail Road and its connections, Octr. 1853.

Outline map of the eastern Great Lakes, east to Philadelphia and New York City, showing the east Pennsylvania coal fields. Chartered April 8, 1852, under Philadelphia, Easton and Water-Gap Railroad. See entry 5... More

Approach to New York East River [nearer view]

Drawing shows a view of the New York skyline from the East River, with buildings looming over trees. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreign Office to the United States in 1853. Originally 1 of 37 dr... More

The crystal palace - Print, Library of Congress collection

Title devised by Library staff. Inscribed in pencil on bottom: Crystal Palace 42nd Street & 5th Ave. 1853. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

Representation of the famous Washington market, New York City

Print shows exterior view of the Washington market in New York City with people and wagons in the foreground. Illus. in: Gleason's pictorial, v. 4, no. 10 (1853 March 5), p. 160. Title from item.

Albany, N.Y. / on stone by Hatch & Severyn ; J.W Hill.

Title from item. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hatch & Severyn.

J. Q. A. Ward. / by H.K.B.

Drawing shows head-and-shoulders portrait of sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, who assisted Henry K. Brown with an equestrian statue of George Washington for Union Square in New York City. Title from item.

Map of the Great Central Railway Line of the west and connecting lines

Map of the north-central and northeastern United States showing some drainage, state boundaries, and place names along the railroad lines. Covers area between New York City and St. Louis, Mo. Scale ca. 1:1,400,... More

Henry Bellows. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Pastor of Unitarian Church in New York City. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More

[City hall, New York]

Deposit; Verner Reed; 1949. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 150.

[Fulton Street, New York City, New York]

Street view showing commercial establishments on the left and in the center background, the United States Hotel. Blind stamp: Meade Brothers, photographers, 233 Broadway, N.Y. Purchase; Marian Carson Collection... More

[3 New York City street scenes showing "ill-paved thoroughfares": "The...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no. 2 (1855 Dec. 22), p. 29. Reference copy may be in LOT 4383-R. Caption card tracings: Roads... More

Dinsmore's complete map of the railroads & canals in the United States...

Map of the eastern half of the United States and part of Canada showing drainage, relief by hachures, state boundaries, and proposed, projected, and operating railroads. Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Another edition, ... More

Naturalization of foreigners, scene in Tammany Hall / drawn from life.

Crowd of men in room, one talking to man at a table, Tammany Hall, New York City. Title from item. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 2, no. 48 (1856 Nov. 8), p. 352.

Scene at the polls, New York City--Boxes for the distribution of ticke...

Crowd of men gathered around booths with signs "Fremont", "Buchanan", and "Fillmore". Title from item. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 2, no. 49 (1856 Nov. 15), p. 353.

Monster Democratic Torch-Light Procession Passing Through Union Square...

Crowd around statue of George Washington on horseback; fireworks in background; banners for Buchanan. New York City. Wood engraving of drawing by T. Nast. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1856 S... More

[Four scenes from the riot in the Sixth Ward, New York City between th...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 4, 1857 July 18, p. 109.

Signora Frezzolini, prima donna, Academy of Music, Fourteenth Street, ...

Signora Frezzolini, half-length portrait, facing left. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1857 Oct. 10, p. 297 (top).

View from the "Dead Rabbit" barricade in Bayard Street, taken at the h...

View of fight between two gangs, the "Dead Rabbits" and the "Bowery Boys" in the Sixth Ward, New York City. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 4, (1857 July 18), p. 108.

Design drawing for stained glass Magnificat window with Madonna, angel...

Title devised by Library staff. Purchase, Donald Samick, 2003 (DLC/PP-2003:109). Forms part of: Lamb Design Collection.

[Design drawing for stained glass Magnificat window with Madonna, ange...

[First American Chess Congress held in New York City, November 1857]

Title devised by Library staff. Source unknown.

Jefferson Market, Sixth Avenue, New York City / Tarbell, S. ; A. Hill.

Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial, v. 13, no. 16 (1857 Oct. 17), p. 248. Title from item.

Interior view of the central office of I.M. Singer & Co., 458 Broadway...

Print shows interior view of large room with women looking at sewing machines and several men looking at merchandise displays. Title from item. Possibly engraved by Edward Keating, b. 1825 or 6. Illus. in: Fran... More

The burning of the City Hall, New York, August 18, 1858

Crowd watching as firemen fight fire on top of City Hall, New York City.

View of New York: Jersey City, Hoboken & Brooklyn

Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6919

Mayor's Tiemann's race to the voting-place as the escort of United Sta...

Mayor Tiemann and soldiers running to the polls in New York City. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1858 Nov. 13, p. 724.

Lying in State at the City Hall, New York [Funeral of Pres. James Monr...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1858 July 17), p. 457. Ref. copy in PRES FILE - Monroe, James Graves. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr. (3); Cemeteries;... More

Mayor's Tiemann's race to the voting-place as the escort of United Sta...

Mayor Tiemann and soldiers running to the polls in New York City; the "voting-place" is a tavern. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 2 (1858 Nov. 13), p. 724.

Explosion of the propeller PETROL, on the North River, [opposite the f...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1858 November 20), p. 749. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

Winter Garden & B'way New York City

Photograph shows street traffic and businesses on Broadway near the Winter Garden Theater and the Southern Hotel. The theater, renamed the Winter Garden in 1859, was destroyed by a fire in March 1867, which als... More

Professor [Thaddeus S.C.] Lowe's mammoth balloon, CITY OF NEW YORK, as...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1859 Nov. 19). Another copy may be in the Landauer Collection, container 33 (A size). Reference copy may be in LOT 4700. This record contains unverified, old da... More

Ladies' drawing-room in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, [New York City]

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1859 Oct. 1), p. 633. Reference copy may be in SSF - Hotels, Taverns, Etc. U.S./N.Y. N.Y.C. 1859. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings:... More

New York City and environs, from the spire of Dr. Spring's new brick c...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 3, 1859 April 23, pp. 264-265.

Broadway on a rainy day, N.Y.C.

Stereo copyrighted by E. Anthony; Anthony's Instantaneous Views. No. 244. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Street scenes; Photog. I.; New York NYC Sts.; NY NYC... More

Liverpool, 1859, part of Birkenhead, the docks, and Cheshire coast

Low-angle bird's-eye view. "Published February 28, 1859, by John R. Isaac ... New York, published by M. Knoedler ... February 28th 1859 ..." LC copy annotated in ink in lower margin: Deposited in Clerk's Office... More

The drive in the Central Pa[rk,] New York, September, 1860 / W. Homer.

Illustration showing many people out for a day of leisure, riding in carriages or on horseback in Central Park in New York City.

[Eldad Holmes, New York City merchant, half-length portrait, seated ho...

Title devised by Library staff. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

The Five Points in 1859. View taken from the corner of Worth & Little...

Five Points being a house of industry--New York City. "For D.T. Valentine's Manual 1860." This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: New York (N.Y.); Streets; City & tow... More

Man standing in front of a house, women on the front porch, New York C...

Title devised by Library staff. Possibly the boarding house where photographers George Stacy and brother James G. Stacy were living somtime between about 1860 through 1863 (source: Brady, Gore article, Stereowo... More

Suspension Bridge, from Broadway, New York

No. 3100. Title from item. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

I'll hang my harp on a willow tree. J. Wrigley, Publisher of Songs, &...

[Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president, three-quarter length p...

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly right. Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York, Privately print... More

City Hall, New York City. New York City sterescopic card, 19th century...

On mount: American Views. N. Y. City & Vicinity. Title devised by Library staff.

There's whiskey in the jar. J. Wrigley, Publisher of songs, ballads &c...

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls. J.Wrigley, Publisher of songs, ...

Academy of Music, Fourteenth Street New York City

On mount: American Views. New York City. No. 335. Title from item. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Broadway, from the balcony of the Metropolitan, looking south

No. 292. Title from item.

Broadway from the corner of Spring St., looking south

No. 285. Title from item.

Great Eastern Steamship, docked at harbor, New York City, N.Y.

Title devised by Library staff. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GNY 119. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of ... More

View of the old Tribune Building (corner of Spruce Street) and other b...

Title devised by Library staff. Gottheim collection code: GNY 41. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of C... More

Person in a horse-drawn vehicle in front of a house, New York City, Ne...

Title devised by Library staff. Photographer not identified. Attribution based on provenance. Possibly the boarding house where photographers George Stacy and brother James G. Stacy resided between about 1860 t... More

Prince of Wales group in 1861

Photograph shows the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and his entourage at photographer Mathew Brady's New Photographic Studio, Broadway and 10th Street, New York City. Title from unverified information ... More