The research shows that the earliest photograph ever taken of New York City was snapped by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1839 of a Unitarian Church. The image is now lost, according to an official website for New York’s history. The earliest surviving images of New York are now considered to be Victor Provost’s work, taken around 1853 or 1854.

Several hundred prints and photographs offering the complete content of a wide range of selected image collections and illustrated monographs: Hudson River mansions, including Washington Irving's home and vicinity in the 1860s; street views by Alice Austen from 1896; a panorama of Fifth Avenue from 1911, and more.

2025年1月28日 · In 1870, Long Island City was established in Queens, and just four years later, New York City annexed the West Bronx, marking a period of territorial growth. This era, later dubbed “the Gilded Age,” was characterized by advancements in infrastructure and technology alongside stark social inequalities.

OldNYC shows 40,000 historical images from the New York Public Library's Milstein Collection on a map. Find photos of your apartment, work, or favorite park!

The first known inhabitants of what is now New York City were the Lenape (aka Delaware), an Indigenous people native to the northeastern U.S. Their villages were groupings of round-shaped wigwams constructed from bark, some of which were large enough to …

2020年5月21日 · We gathered some vintage photos that show just how much the city has changed over the past 130 years—we're talking horse-drawn carriages in the 1890s, ticker tape parades in the 1940s, and Wall...

This website contains hundreds of photographs of New York City. They provide a candid glimpse of the city during the 1990s and early 2000s. All the photos were taken using film.

2018年11月5日 · Researchers interested in New York City will be thrilled to learn that you can view online images of nearly every single building in the five boroughs of New York City from circa 1940. In 2018, the New York City Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) announced that they had completed a project to digitize over 720,000 historical ...

Browse 90,248 authentic new york city old stock photos, high-res images, and pictures, or explore additional vintage new york city or old new york city stock images to find the right photo at the right size and resolution for your project. Detail of brick facades of traditional walk-ups in new York City with rusty fire escapes. New York City, USA.

Satellite imagery illustrating the core of the New York City Metropolitan Area, with Manhattan Island at its center (Source) (Source) Modernist architecture juxtaposed with classical architecture is seen often in New York City. (Source)