Spectacular Photos of Manhattan, New York City in the 1950s in Vibrant Kodachrome

Harold Mayer was a renowned scholar of urban geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In addition to specializing in urban and transport geography of North America, focusing on New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and British Columbia, Mayer travelled widely, taking photographs along the way. He used his extensive photographic collection to teach. For several years, he often returned to the same city to take pictures of the same site, to illustrate changes in the urban landscape. The American Geographical Society has his collection on display. He took these Kodachrome photographs of Manhattan, New York City, in the 1940s and 1950s.

#1 People gathered beneath Washington Square Park Arch, 1956

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#2 Lower East Side street scene, 1956

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#3 New York, Manhattan, Macdougal Alley, 1956

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#4 New York, Manhattan, view of advertisements in Times Square – 1948

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#5 New York, Manhattan, view of United Nations buildings under construction, 1951

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#6 New York, Manhattan, designated children’s play street with residential buildings – 1956

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#7 Public housing development, 1956

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#8 New York, Manhattan, street scene near Herald Square, 1956

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#9 New York, Manhattan, Stuyvesant Town residential development, 1956

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#10 Residential street in Sutton Place neighborhood, 1956

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#11 View of Park Avenue north from 58th Street 1956

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#12 New York, Manhattan, Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue

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#13 Street scene on Broadway near Herald Square, 1956

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