20 Historic Photos of New York City
Chorus girls arriving in New York City, from England, in 1926. George Grantham Bain.
View from Empire State Building to Chrysler Building and Queensboro Bridge. January 1932.
An old woman carrying a heavy load on Lafayette St. February 1912.
Suffragettes on way to Boston. George Grantham Bain Collection.
Huts made of salvaged materials. Notice the baby carriage. Photographed by Berenice Abbott. October 25, 1935.
School children around May poles in Central Park.
Produce market on Washington Street. 1952.
Grand Central Terminal. October 1941
A row of hanging oppossums.
S.S. Coamo leaving New York. December 1941.
Clam seller in Mulberry Bend. Around 1900.
Camel cigarette advertisement. Times Square, Feb 1943.
Rear view of tenement, 134 1/2 Thompson Street. Lewis Wickes Hine. February 1912.
52nd St. and E. River. December 1931.
The Mall, Central Park. Around 1905.
View from 27th floor. December 1931.
Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Check out the decorative ironwork. Photographed by Berenice Abbott. November 27, 1935.
A girl carrying kimonos. Thompson St, February 1912.
Washington Market, 1917.
Italian Festa.
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I like the children around the May poles!
The one of Grand Central Terminal looks like it has a story behind it. It looks like a movie poster or book cover.
HEY! How about some CREDIT? Who took these photos? YOU ???? Didn’t think so… Prepare for a take down order..
@Jim
These photos are all in the public domain.
I hope you enjoyed them.
Ted
@Ted
I am dumb. Sorry.
Ha Jim, pwnd!
these are historic pictures of NYC? no world trade towers, statue of liberty, rockafeller center 1932? this page was a disappointment.
Wonderful stuff, thanks!
Loved these pics. If you happen upon more please post. Life was sooo different back then, we don’t realize how good you’ve got it.
Wowwww. It’s amazing to see how fast our standards of living have changed. But there are still people out there living in poverty. While many are thinking “what am I going to eat?”, others living comfortable lives complain about broken air conditioning, or rising gas prices. Puts things into perspective.
Love the string of opossums! Tasty treats!
Hey… real quick, in your second photo, entitled A View of the Empire State Building and Queensboro Bridge… That would actually be the Chrysler Building. Might wanna change that.
Luke
it says view FROM the Empire state building which would have been the only place to take a pic from higher up than the Chrysler building at the time
Mattt: “these are historic pictures of NYC? no world trade towers, statue of liberty, rockafeller center 1932? this page was a disappointment.”
Hey, Matt. Tell us where to see your historical website.
The photo of Thompson Street 1935 does not hide the fact that the nation was in a depression, today with foreclosures and layoffs the try to disguise our depression.
Those are fascinating photos…how did those people survive without cellphones and gameboys…my GAWD!
Perhaps one day, 100, 200, 300, 500 years from now, people will be looking at our JPEGs/AVIs/MPEGs/MP3s with our desktops/notebooks, driving around in Priuses, and wonder how people of our time managed in such a primitive manner, living to be only 70-80 years on average. (Yes, biomedical research in the next 50 years will enable to people to live more than a couple of centuries, and looking very youthful throughout…)
…. some great photographs of New York City in the early 1900’s, a very nice collection !!
Facinating Photos… I cant help imagining the what kind of life the people led in old photos.
nice post
If you google street view those Thompson St. addresses they are still there. The 169 Thompson St. photo is amazing. On google street view, you can tell that while the street level facade of 171 Thompson has changed, the 2nd and 3rd floor balconies are still the originals.
Enjoyed looking at your photos so much! Had completely forgotten about the Camel billboard with the “real smoke” . . . wow, VERY different times . . .
Also really enjoy old pix of New York — have you seen Library of Congress’s video clips from decades ago? Truly magical — like passing through a worm hole into another world . . .
What strikes me the most is how American fashion has gone drastically downhill in the 21st century!
Great collection of pics. Thanks for posting!
Que buenas fotos, a pesar del tiempo que tienen se ven excelentes, buen aporte.
Where/how can we order prints of some of the pictures you’ve put online? I am interested in one of the photos you have in the collection of historic photos of New York City. Thanks.
just wonderful images, recorded for all time.
those are great overall, i can’t believe that sometimes we miss some of these incredible photographs