Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library - NYPL Digital Collections

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Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library

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Description: Approximately 54,000 New York City photographs (and their captioned versos), primarily of exterior building views and neighborhood scenes, from the 1870s-1970s, arranged by borough and street. Photographers whose work is represented in this collection include Alexander Alland, A. Tennyson Beals and his wife Jessie Tarbox Beals, Ewing Galloway, Samuel H. Gottscho, Fay Sturtevant Lincoln, Irving Underhill, as well as Percy Loomis Sperr (1890-1964), who produced nearly 30,000 of the collection's photographs. The work of photo agencies such as Brown Brothers, Culver Service, International Photos, Underwood and Underwood, and Wurtz Brothers is also included.
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1870 - 1980 (Approximate); Place: New York, NY.
Library locations: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy; Shelf locator: AZ 12-2335
Topics: New York (N.Y.); Manhattan (New York, N.Y.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Bronx (New York, N.Y.); Queens (New York, N.Y.); Staten Island (New York, N.Y.); Historic buildings
Genres: Photographs
Physical Description: Extent: 206 boxes (ca. 69,473 photographs) : b&w ; various sizes.
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19806373; RLIN/OCLC: 839909840; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a301da20-c52e-012f-cc55-58d385a7bc34

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