Old pictures of New York

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New York has approximately 8.804.190 inhabitants and we also have many old photographs nearby in places such as Financial District, Chinatown, SoHo, Little Italy or Lower East Side.

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Newsgirl and newsboy

Christmas shopping

c. 1902 OldPik

Early 1900’s Christmas window shopping, New York.

Wagons hauling snow to be dumped into the East River after a major snowstorm

Immigrants detained at Ellis Island dancing

Hansom cab driver.

Men play cards in a New York building

Old and New New York

Winter – Fifth Avenue by Alfred Stieglitz

The Terminal by Alfred Stieglitz

c. 1863 OldPik

A carte de visite of a US Navy Lieutenant of US Civil war

President Lincoln lying in state at New York's City Hall on April 24

Unidentified boy using Weissbein's roadhouse pump well, Caton Street, Brooklyn.

Haven Lane Spring (Buckman's well) between W. 181st and W. 182nd Streets, Northern Avenue and Riverside Drive

Unidentified boy at a spring on the northeast corner of Riverside Drive and W. 91st Street

Unidentified girl at the water pump at the rear of 65 E. 87th Street, north side between Madison and Park

Unidentified girl drinking at Montaigne's Spring, McGown's Pass, Central Park

Unidentified man drinking from the spring at W. 110th Street, Central Park, 50 feet west of Seventh Avenue

c. 1900 OldPik

A Woman Drinks at the Carmen Spring, on West 175th Street and Amsterdam Avenue

c. 1898 OldPik

Undated portrait of James Reuel Smith, c. 1893-1905

Photograph of Pedro II do Brasil by Mathew Brady

American poet Walt Whitman.

Booker T. Washington Lecture at Carnegie Hall

J. P. Morgan beating a photographer with his stick

J.P. Morgan walking alongside his son in the last known photograph of the two together

c. 1899 OldPik

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Headmistress Susan B. Anthony at age 28

c. 1901 OldPik

Humphrey Bogart

Robert Frost's 85th birthday

Du Bois organized the Silent Parade to protest the East St. Louis riots.

Barnum with Commodore Nutt, photograph by Charles DeForest Fredricks