50+ Rare Historic Photos That Give A Glimpse Of New York From the Late 19th Century

#1 Broadway, Looking North from 66th Street, 1890

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#2 59th Street, Looking West from Grand Army Plaza, 1894

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#3 View of Maiden Lane, 1891

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#4 Laying cable line for trolleys in Union Square, 1891

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#5 181st Street at the East River, 1891

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#6 Madison Square, 1899

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#7 Hester Street crowded with women shopping and push-cart peddlers, 1898

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#8 5th Avenue and 59th Street, 1897

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#9 The World Building, 1891

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#10 201-207 Broadway, Decorated for a Parade Promoting William McKinley and Garret Hobart for the Presidential Election, 1896.

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#11 Main Street, Delhi, 1890

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#12 Proctor’s Pleasure Palace, 58th Street and Lexington Avenue, 1895

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#13 Union Square, 1900

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#14 Circus Parade, Washington Park, Albany, 1880

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#15 Pedestrians and push-carts on Mulberry Street, 1898

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#16 A police officer handing something to a horse-cart driver hauling snow, 1899

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#17 Mulberry Street, 1898

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#18 Central Park Ice Skating, 1890

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#19 The Dakota at Central Park West, 1890

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#20 First Electric Taxis, 1896

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#21 Bowling Green Park, 1898

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#22 Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, 1899

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#23 Police Parade, Bowler Hats, Hardly Any Women, 1899

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#24 Brooklyn Bridge Under construction, 1872

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#25 Manhattan Bridge

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#26 Times Square under construction

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#27 The Jackson Sanatorium, Dansville, 1890

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#28 Looking East along 42nd Street toward Grand Central Depot , 1880

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#29 A crowd gathers for Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration, March 4, 1861

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#30 The Union League Club, 5th Avenue and 39th Street, 1885

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#31 Atlantic and Norstrom Avenues, Brooklyn, 1895

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#32 Harlem, after the Blizzard of February 13, 1899

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#33 Harlem River Bridge overlooking Manhattan Field, 1895

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#34 Central Park,1900

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#35 Madison Square, 1898

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#36 Park Avenue South, 1890

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#37 Grand Central, 1893

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#38 Newspaper Row, 1897

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#39 Hammerstein’s Victoria Theatre and Roof Garden

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#40 Playing children near dead horse, 1899

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#41 59th Street, Looking West from Grand Army Plaza, 1894

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#42 The Windsor Hotel, Broadway and WIlliam Street, Saratoga, 1900

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#43 The Croton Aqueduct Distributing Reservoir, 40th Street and 5th Avenue, 1891

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#44 Madison Avenue at 77th Street, 1891

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#45 Advertising for Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, 5th Avenue and 75th Street, 1891

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#46 5th Avenue at 42nd Street Looking North, 1885

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#47 Looking East down 39th Street from 5th Avenue, 1900

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#48 The Broadway Central Hotel, Broadway at Bond Street, 1890

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#49 City Hall in its fanciest dress for the Dewey Parade, 1898

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#50 Lumber District Horse Car, 1890

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#51 Park Row near Broadway, 1896

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#52 Parade, Street Cleaners, Fifth Ave. & 42nd St., 1896

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#53 Coney Island, 1896

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#54 Central park west, 1890

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#55 5th Avenue and 14th Street, 1890

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#56 Stock Exchange, 1890

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#57 Broadway and Union Square, 1892

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#58 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, 1894

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#59 The Puck Building, 1895

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#60 South Street Ferry Building, 1899

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#61 High Bridge (The Aqueduct Bridge), 1899

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#62 Waldorf Astoria Original Site at 5th Ave and 35th Street, 1899

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#63 A view of bustling port area on West Street, 1899

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#64 Horse-drawn ash cart. New York City, 1896

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#65 Street cleaner. New York City, 1896

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#66 Electric omnibuses at the Flatiron Building

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#67 Bathing 1896 Far Rockaway Beach, 1896

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#68 A ghost swimming, Manhattan Beach, 1896

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#69 Sports-Bathing 1897 Far Rockaway Beach, 1897

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#70 Hester Street, 1898

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#71 Mulberry Bend, 1890

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