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N.Y. City, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City, with Battery Park in the foreground. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Form... More

Battery Park, 9/6/15 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Fire chart of the Borough of Manhattan, N.Y. : a useful reference map ...

Shows locations of building fires (indicated by red dots) for all of the city blocks of Manhattan south of 190th Street; also shows number of fires (in black) per block, block numbers, and shipping piers. Orien... More

Playground Dances, 9/6/15 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows children dancing at Battery Park, New York City. (Source: similar Bain negative: LC-B2-3592-8).

Battery Park, 9615, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is... More

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

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Viviani, R.A.C. Smith, Joffre - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows French General Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), French politician René Viviani (1863-1925) with the New York City Commissioner of Docks, Robert Alexander Conrad Smith (1857-1933), as they arrive at B... More

Balfour's arrival, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the arrival of British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) at Battery Park, New York City, May 11, 1917. Balfour and others are seated in an automobile. (Source: Flickr Commons p... More

Balfour's arrival, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the arrival of British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) at Battery Park, New York City, May 11, 1917. Balfour and others are seated in an automobile. (Source: Flickr Commons p... More

Early automobiles - Balfour's arrival

Photograph shows the arrival of British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) at Battery Park, New York City, May 11, 1917. Balfour and others are seated in an automobile. (Source: Flickr Commons p... More

Early automobiles - Balfour's arrival

Photograph shows the arrival of British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) at Battery Park, New York City, May 11, 1917. Balfour and others are seated in an automobile. (Source: Flickr Commons p... More

Early automobiles - Balfour's arrival

Photograph shows the arrival of British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) at Battery Park, New York City, May 11, 1917. Balfour and others are seated in an automobile. (Source: Flickr Commons p... More

Viviani, R.A.C. Smith, Joffre - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows French General Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), French politician René Viviani (1863-1925) with the New York City Commissioner of Docks, Robert Alexander Conrad Smith (1857-1933), as they arrive at B... More

Balfour's arrival, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the arrival of British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) at Battery Park, New York City, May 11, 1917. Balfour and others are seated in an automobile. (Source: Flickr Commons p... More

Nanni's safe, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows inventor Menotti Nanni demonstrating that his ocean floating safe was unsinkable by locking himself inside and having it submerged into water for one minute at Battery Park, New York City (Source: F... More

Nanni Safe, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows inventor Menotti Nanni demonstrating that his ocean floating safe was unsinkable by locking himself inside and having it submerged into water for one minute at Battery Park, New York City (Source: F... More

Nanni Safe, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows inventor Menotti Nanni demonstrating that his ocean floating safe was unsinkable by locking himself inside and having it submerged into water for one minute at Battery Park, New York City. Castle Ga... More

Aquarium and statue of Verrazzano, Battery Park

J244851 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by American Studio, N.Y. No. 527.

Brooklyn Bridge. View from the Brooklyn side across East River to Manh...

J244761 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 23152.

Hammond's subway system map of New York City (Manhattan and The Bronx)...

Title from cover. "Copyright by the City of New York. Copyright by C.S. Hammond & Co." LC copy imperfect: Use-worn, brittle, torn at fold lines, taped, annotated in lead-pencil, rubber-stamped, cover annotated ... More

Aerial survey, Manhattan Island, New York City /

Airphoto mosaic. Also covers adjacent part of The Bronx. "This mosaic was made by assembling 100 aerial photographs taken ... at an altitude of 10,000 feet." Donated to the Geography and Map Division by Mr. Dal... More

New York Skyline from Brooklyn - Irving Underhill Co. photo

J10636 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc., N.Y.C. No. B 57595C.

[New York City skyline as seen from Brooklyn, with ocean liner Maureta...

JO 8891 U.S. Copyright Office No. 356809. Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mid-town Manhattan, looking northeast toward Chrysler Building] / Wil...

JO 8949 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 70. Public domain photograph of the city, skyscraper buildings, cityscape, downtown, urban environment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Pub... More

New York city views. General view of buildings, from Battery Park, sta...

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New York skyscrapers. Cityscape photograph

Photograph shows New York City piers and skyscrapers from across the Hudson River. J11712 U.S. Copyright Office. No. B58097.

New York city views. General view of buildings, from Battery Park, sta...

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Field's Building, 168-170 John Street (formerly 32-38 Burling Slip), N...

Significance: This structure, originally a row of four uniformly designed commercial buildings, is a particularly fine example of the Greek Revival commercial architecture which followed the fire of 1835 on the... More

Surrogates Court, 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-402 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000888

Harry F. Sinclair House, 2 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York, New Yo...

Survey number: HABS NY-395 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001882

Modernace Building, 319 East Forty-fourth Street, New York, New York C...

Survey number: HABS NY-6067 Public domain photograph of New York historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lamppost, Second Avenue & East Forty-ninth Street, New York, New York ...

Survey number: HABS NY-6073 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

29 Washington Street (Store Front), New York, New York County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-481-A Public domain photograph of street advertisement signs, downtown commercial district, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

15 Washington Street (Stairs), New York, New York County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-482-A Public domain photograph of New York historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

South Street Seaport Museum, 236 Front Street, 236 Front Street, New Y...

Significance: Grocer Edward G. Faile built 236 Front Street between 1827 and 1828. Like many of the buildings in the Seaport, 236 Front Street has contained a variety of busnesses including a liquor store and f... More

Third Avenue Elevated, New York, New York County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-6373 Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tudor City Complex, The Hermitage, East Forty-third Street, New York, ...

Survey number: HABS NY-6075-J Public domain photograph of New York historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

YMCA, 180 West One-hundred-thirty-fifth Street, New York, New York Cou...

Survey number: HABS NY-5695 Public domain photograph of a room, home interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chamber of Commerce Building, 65 Liberty Street, New York, New York Co...

Survey number: HABS NY-397 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73001214

South Street Seaport Museum, 142-144 Beekman Street-211 Front Street, ...

Significance: Designed by George B. Post for Ellen S. Auchmuty, a Schermerhorn descendant, in 1885, the brick and terra cotta store is one of the handsomest buildings in the Seaport area. Terra cotta fish and s... More

Minnie Building, 303 East Forty-sixth Street, New York, New York Count...

Survey number: HABS NY-6066 Public domain photograph of New York historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Allied Arts Building, 304-320 East Forty-fifth Street, New York, New Y...

Significance: A large loft building of the 1920s, designed by the architectural firm of Buchman and Kahn. Survey number: HABS NY-6058

Tiffany & Company Building, 401 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York Count...

Survey number: HABS NY-401 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001886

South Street Seaport Museum, 232-234 Front Street, New York, New York ...

Significance: Originally built for grocer Gershom Smith in 1816, this broad double building was converted into a stable in 1897. The building remained a stable until about 1930, the only one in the neighborhood... More

Hamilton Fish House, 21 Stuyvesant Street, New York, New York County, ...

Survey number: HABS NY-398 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001456

South Street Seaport Museum, Block 96W, New York, New York County, NY

Significance: Block 96W, surrounded by Water Street, Beekman Street, Front Street, and Fulton Street, a block away from the East River, was at one time part of that river. Beginning in 1750, owners of waterlots... More

View of downtown Manhattan from Battery Park. New York City

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Buildings from Battery Park. New York City

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Buildings from Battery Park. New York City

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

Buildings from Battery Park. New York City

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of downtown Manhattan from Battery Park. 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

Bethesda, Maryland. A Battery Park Market truck on the door of which i...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old truck parked in front of a house. Office of War Information Pho...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Bethesda, Maryland. A Battery Park Market truck on the door of which i...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sharply dressed, [gangster/gambler], Meyer Lansky as he left court tod...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Note on verso: Lansky plans return despite ban by Cuba: Jaunty and smiling, gambler Meyer Lansky walked out of Manhattan Arrest Court today and indicated, that despite what Cuba says, h... More

The elementary schools of Manhattan - Public domain map

Shows school locations, nos., and district boundaries. In title area: Date 9/29/60. Title in india ink on rubber-stamped sheet affixed at lower right. Printed at head of title: Office of the President, Borough ... More

[Mrs. Constance B. Motley, half-length portrait, facing front]

Photograph shows Mrs. Constance Baker Motley seated at a desk. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mrs. Constance B. Motley being sworn in at City Hall]

Photograph shows Mrs. Constance Baker Motley being sworn in at City Hall as the new Borough President of Manhattan by Mayor Robert F. Wagner.

[Mrs. Constance B. Motley, half-length portrait, facing right]

Photograph shows Mrs. Constance Baker Motley, newly elected Lady Borough President, seated at her desk signing papers.

[Mrs. Constance B. Motley being sworn in by Mayor Wagner]

Photograph shows Mrs. Constance Baker Motley being sworn in as the new Borough President of Manhattan by Mayor Robert Wagner as her husband, Joel Jr. and son, Joel III look on. NYWTS staff photo. Forms part of... More

[Mrs. Constance B. Motley, Lady Borough President]

Photograph shows Mrs. Constance Baker Motley standing at the door of her office "Executive Office - President of the Borough of Manhattan." NYWTS staff photo. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun... More

Washington Square North (House), Washington Square North & Fifth Avenu...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Estatua de la la Libertad, Monumento Nacional : NPS New York

Scale ca. 1:31,680; 1 pulgada equivale aproximadamente a 0.5 milla. "Reprint 1975." Oriented with north toward the upper right. Shows parks in lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty National Monument. Text, ... More

Statua della Libertà, Monumento nazionale, New York

Scale ca. 1:31,680; 1 in. equals about 0.5 mile. "Reprint 1975." Oriented with north toward the upper right. Place names in English. Shows parks in lower Manhattan. Includes text. Text, poem in English, and col... More

Statue de la Liberté, Monument national, New York

Scale ca. 1:31,680; 1 in. equals about 0.5 mile. "Reprint 1975." Oriented with north toward the upper right. Place names in English. Shows parks in lower Manhattan. Includes text. Text, poem in English, and co... More

Freiheitsstatue Nationaldenkmal, New York

Scale ca. 1:31,680; 1 in. equals about 0.5 mile. "Reprint 1975." Oriented with north toward the upper right. Place names in English. Shows parks in lower Manhattan. Includes text. Text, poem in English, and col... More

Battery Park View, New York World Trade Center, 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

Church of the Covenant, 310 East Forty-second Street, New York, New Yo...

Public domain photograph of church building, Christianity, religious architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

South Street Seaport Museum, 273 Water Street, New York, New York Coun...

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

National parks in greater New York City

Covers Manhattan and adjacent districts. "*GPO: 1989--242-345/00074. Reprint 1989." Panel title. Includes descriptive index of federal historic sites and col. ill. Text, metropolitan area map with index of fede... More

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, New York

"*GPO:2010--357-940/80530." The map is a location map indicating the site of the house (now rebuilt) in which Theodore Roosevelt was born in Midtown Manhattan (New York City). Title from panel. Includes text, c... More

A description of the towne of Mannados: or New Amsterdam, as it was in...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbia Heights no. 222, Brooklyn.

Public domain photograph - New York, art photography, artistic, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 58th Street

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Plate 7: [Bounded by St. Anns Ave., John St., Eagle Ave., Cedar Place,...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plate 5: [Bounded by E. 154th St., Brook Ave., Westchester Ave., St. A...

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plate 12: [Bounded by Devoe St., Jerome Anderson Ave., Endrew Pl. Walt...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Plate 10: [Bounded by E. 170th St., Clinton Ave., Horton St., Prospect...

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plate 18: [Bounded by E. 138th St., Locust Ave., E. 132nd St., Willow ...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plate 6: [Bounded by E. 162nd St., Courtland Ave., E. 163rd St., Brook...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Atlas of the city of New York, Volume Five, embracing the 23rd Ward, s...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Plate 17: [Bounded by E. 149th St., Trinity Ave., E. 147th St., Southe...

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Plate 14: [Bounded by Sheridan Ave., Elliott Ave., Webster Ave., Brook...

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plate 13: [Bounded by Depot Pl., Sedgwick Ave., Birch Ave., Marcher Av...

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plate 8: [Bounded by E. 164th St., Boston Road, E. 165th St., Prospet ...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plate 11: [Bounded by E. 161st St., Sherman Ave., E. 156th St., Railro...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plate 16: [Bounded by E. 167th St., Westchester Ave., Longfellow St., ...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plate 4: [Bounded by Cromwell Ave., E. 150th St., River Ave., E. 149th...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Watuppa, from water front, Brooklyn, Manhattan.

Public domain photograph - New York, art photography, artistic, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Watuppa, Pier 5, East River, Brooklyn.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hell Gate Bridge: I. Central Steel Arch over East River looking toward...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Queensboro Bridge: II. Long Island City, Queens, looking southwest fro...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Map of New York City showing portions of Brooklyn, Jersey City, and We...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Vingboons map of Manhattan, 1639 : a facsimile from the Library of Con...

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Plan of New York City of New-York and its environs to Greenwich . . .T...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plan of New York, Manhattan between North or Hudson River and East or ...

Plan of New York City of New-York and its environs to Greenwich . . .T...

Academy of Design. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope Card.

On mount: New York City. No. 212. Public domain image of 19th-century New York City architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Taunton's citizens' and travelers' rapid transit map and time table of...

Covers Manhattan south of 62nd Street. Also shows streetcar lines, trunk railroads, ferries, and piers. Title from panel. "Published Feb. 18, 1879, First Edition, 50,000." Includes notes and inset showing stati... More

Washington Building and Battery Park. New York (state) 19th Century St...

H18628 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1900, by Burt. H. Vernet. Greater New York Series. No. 252.