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Title: "The Great Eastern," number 115 East 37th Street, 1865.
Description: An image of tenement buildings with clothing drying on clothes lines that extend from one building to the next; the roof of the building on the upper left has numerous holes.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34078

Title: 1240 to 1256 Broadway - Caswell & Massey Co., druggists, Nicoll & Co tailors, Gessner Florist, Imperial Hotel. Broadway and 31st Street.
Description: Exterior view of Imperial Hotel and adjoining businesses with pedestrians.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34084

Title: 34th Street west of Broadway - 6th Ave, Koster & Bials, 1902.
Description: Koster and Bial’s Music Hall on 34th Street and Broadway. Construction work is being done next to the building and pieces of lumber are visible near the sidewalk. The image also features pedestrians and horses and carriages. On the left an advertisement posted on a brick building says “Grand Rapids Furniture Exhibit.”
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34061

Title: 49 West 32nd Street. Hotel Martinique, Broadway 32d to 33d Streets, facing Greeley Square; close to Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal and Hudson & Manhattan tunnel line from New Jersey, in center of shopping and theater district; one of the largest and best appointed hostelries.
Description: Illustrated exterior view of hotel. Architect: H. J. Hardenbergh.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34094

Title: A Corner in the Smoking Room of Lambs' Clubhouse, 70 West Thirty Sixth Street.
Description: Image depicting a cozy kitchen-like fireside setting with tables, stools, beer steins and cooking implements. 70 West 36th St.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34144

Title: A rare photograph of Greeley Square in 1893, when there wasn't an automobile in sight and "Chimmie Fadden" was attracting crowds to the Standard Theater.
Description: Nineteenth-century photograph of Greeley Square, West 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34075

Title: At Broadway, between thirty-third and thirty-fourth streets. The policeman is looking down thirty-fourth street.
Description: Exterior view of the Saks & Co. building with pedestrians. Broadway between 33rd and 34th Streets.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34086

Title: At the Lower Corner of the Waldorf-Astoria.
Description: Two well-dressed women and a little girl crossing 33rd Street below the Waldorf-Astoria. There is a horse drawn carriage and several men also in the street, one possibly a flower vendor. Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34143

Title: B. Altman & Co., Corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street.
Description: Illustrated northeast exterior view of B. Altman's Store on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. Depicts the Fifth Avenue façade.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34114

Title: B. Altman & Co., Detail, Fifth Avenue entrance.
Description: Illustrated exterior view of B. Altman & Co. store, 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34116

Title: B. Altman & Co., Fifth Ave., Madison Ave., Thirty-Fourth and Thirty-fifth Sts., New York.
Description: Illustrated front cover depicting Southwest exterior view of B. Altman's department store. Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34102

Title: Bed Room, Stewart's Hotel for Working Women.
Description: Illustration of one of the bedrooms in the Women's Hotel, Fourth Avenue, 32nd and 33rd Streets. Stewart's Hotel for Working Women was commissioned by the wealthy merchant, A.T. Stewart. The hotel opened in 1877 to provide safe housing for the influx of working women into the city. It was soon reopened as a regular hotel in 1878 and renamed the Park Avenue Hotel. The building was demolished in 1927.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34019

Title: Broadway Tabernacle, New York, Cor. Broadway and 34th Street.
Description: Broadway Tabernacle Church, established in 1836, is now the Broadway United Church of Christ.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34100

Title: Broadway and 34th Street (1900)
Description: Now the busiest crossing in New York and a great hotel center. The tower is the old Broadway Tabernacle where the much beloved Dr. Taylor preached until his death. The site was later occupied by the Hotel McAlpin.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34129

Title: Broadway at Night Looking North from Thirty-fourth Street.
Description: This is a vibrant reproduction of a color print by Canadian-born artist Charles William Jefferys (1869-1951) who once worked at the New York Herald. The Broadway Tabernacle Church, the 6th Avenue elevated train, the Herald Building and several theatres, including Koster & Bial's, are depicted. The streets are teaming with cable cars, horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians. Broadway and 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34154

Title: Broadway at Thirty-fourth Street, 1888. This site now occupied by the building of Saks & Co.
Description: Corner of Broadway and 34th Street. An aerial view of approximately a dozen storefronts in mid Manhattan featuring signage advertising "Jim Corbetts", the services of trained nurses, a doctor's office, soda and ice cream. Elevated subway tracks and a cable car are also visible.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34126

Title: Broadway between 34th and 35th Streets. Rogers, Peet & Co., Clothing - Macaleen's Loan Office at corner of Thirty-fifth Street.
Description: Exterior view of F. Mohr Furniture Manufacturers building. The image shows streetcars, pedestrians and elevated railroad along Broadway
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34089

Title: Broadway between Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Streets.
Description: Broadway between 34th and 35th Streets. Exterior view of Macy's department store's Broadway entrance and Herald Square. The image also depicts horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians and a view of Herald Square.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34088

Title: Broadway, 31st to 32nd Street, 1218 to 1238 - Atlantic Coast Line - Wallack's Theatre - Hiram Walker & Sons, Canadian Club Whiskey - The Men's Shop, Haberdashers - New Grand Hotel.
Description: Exterior view of the Grand Hotel and Wallack's Theatre along with adjoining businesses. Depicts signs, horse-drawn carriage and pedestrian.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34083

Title: Broadway, between 33rd and 34th Streets - Mutual Bank - Otto Goldsmith, Jewelers - R.M. Haan, Café and Importer - Brodie Importing Co., Trunks, Bags, Etc., - J. Honda, Japanese Goods - M.A. Bowe, Florist - United Cigar Stores Co - Josephson Bros., Menswear - Baltimore & Ohio R.R Ticket Office, corner 34th Street.
Description: Exterior view of the Mutual Bank building along with adjoining businesses. Depicts billboard advertisements, signs and pedestrians.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34087

Title: Church at 35th Street and Lexington Avenue.
Description: Caption reads: Church at Thirty-Fifth Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, Vol. Three, 244. Church has vines growing up towards the steeple and along the side of the building. Across the street, a row house has its façade also covered in vines.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34163

Title: Crossing of Broadway and Sixth Avenue at 34th Street.
Description: View from 34th Street looking south at Greeley Square. The Union Dime Savings Bank is in the center and the 6th Avenue El train is on the right of the image.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34001

Title: Decker Brothers Pianos. - Where They Are Made.
Description: Print of the Decker Bros. Piano Forte Manufactory headquarters, 35th Street and Eighth Avenue.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34072

Title: Discovery of three half-starved alms-house children in the room of a hired nurse, 152 East Thirty-Fourth Street.
Description: 152 East 34th Street. Interior view of three orphans being removed from the room of a hired nurse.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34028

Title: Drawing-Room in the State Apartments, New Hotel Waldorf.
Description: Erected by William Waldorf Astor on the site of the former home of his father, Northwest Corner Fifth Avenue and Thirty-third Street, New York. Cost $4,000,000.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34022

Title: Empire State Building, 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Description: Drawing taken from the book "The Symbol of American Achievement." Upon the site of the historic old Waldorf Astoria, stands the Empire State Building, the highest structure in the world. Its tower designed as a mooring mast for airships is often concealed from the eye by low hanging clouds.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34002

Title: Exterior view of the Herald Square Theatre along with adjoining businesses and buildings as well as billboard advertisements, signs and pedestrians.
Description: 1329 to 1349 Broadway, between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Streets. Lew Field's Theatre - United Cigar Store - The Gerald and Ethier Cafe - The Emerson Shoe - The Broadway Music Store - The Elite Diamond and Antique Shop - Mendelowitz Candy - Gophir Diamond Co. - Henry A. Richie & Co., Tailors - W.L. Douglas Shoe Co., cor. of Thirty-sixth Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34090

Title: Fold-out view of Penn Station façade.
Description: West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue. Book illustration of the original Beaux-Arts Penn Station façade featuring granite columns designed by architects McKim, Mead and White.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34055

Title: Grand Dining Room, Stewart's Hotel for Working Women.
Description: Fourth Avenue, 32nd and 33rd Streets. Illustration of the Grand Ballroom of the Women's Hotel. Stewart's Hotel for Working Women was commissioned by the wealthy merchant, A.T. Stewart. The hotel opened in 1877 to provide safe housing for the influx of working women into the city. It was soon reopened as a regular hotel in 1878 and renamed the Park Avenue Hotel. The building was demolished in 1927.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34020

Title: Harrigan's Theater - West Thirty-fifth Street, near Sixth Avenue. Francis H. Kimball, Architect.
Description: West 35th Street near Sixth Avenue. Image shows the façade of Harrigan's Theater designed by architect Francis Hatch Kimball and built by Edward Harrigan (of Harrigan & Hart), who managed it until 1895, when Richard Mansfield took over renaming it the Garrick.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34003

Title: Hotel McAlpin Broadway and 34th Street. One of New York’s most prominent hotels. In the heart of the shopping and midtown business districts and convenient to all amusements.
Description: The Hotel McAlpin on the corner of Broadway and 34th Street. The street scene includes automobiles, buses, pedestrian traffic and on the lower right hand corner a glimpse of the Broadway El.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34059

Title: Hotel McAlpin, Broadway and 34th Street. One of New York's most prominent hotels. In the heart of the shopping and midtown business districts and convenient to all amusements.
Description: Broadway and 34th Street. Exterior view of hotel showing streetcars and an elevated railroad car in lower right hand corner.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34092

Title: Hotel Pennsylvania, 33rd Street, opposite Pennsylvania Railroad depot.
Description: Hotel Pennsylvania, at 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue, opposite the Pennsylvania Railroad depot, with which it is connected by an underground passageway. The first section on Seventh Avenue, 20 stories high, contains 1,000 bedrooms with bath and shower. Exceptionally favored for sunshine and air.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34058

Title: In the Turkish Room of the Waldorf-Astoria.
Description: A drawing of a hotel salon decorated in a "Turkish" style. Fifth Avenue and 34th Street
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34141

Title: James McCreery & Co.
Description: An advertisement (from a pamphlet) for the McCreery Department Store, Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, a prominent dry goods merchant which occupied this ten-story retail edifice.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34128

Title: Life Building - 19 West Thirty-first Street, 1901. Carrere & Hastings Architects.
Description: Façade of the Life Building, 19 West 31st Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34074

Title: M'Adoo Tunnel; Morton Street tubes completed; Cortlandt Street tubes under way. M'Adoo Terminal, 6th Ave. and 33d St.; Penna. Tunnels on lowest level; proposed municipal subway; M'Adoo subway terminus; surface lines; 6th Ave., "L" and bridge over "L."
Description: Sixth Avenue and 33rd Street. Illustrated cross-section of one of the "Hudson tubes," which are now operated as part of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) system as well as the Penn station terminal. The two passenger railway tubes were completed and opened in 1908. Their construction was overseen by William M'Adoo, President of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company who later went on to become Secretary of the Treasury under President Wilson from 1913-1918 and Director of the United States Railroad Administration (USRA) from 1917-1918.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34081

Title: Macy's Christmas Gifts Catalogue.
Description: Broadway and 34th Street. Macy's exterior view, detail of 34th Street entrance with clock.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34096

Title: Main Entrance, Stewart's Hotel for Working Women.
Description: Illustration of main entrance to the Women's Hotel, Fourth Avenue, 32nd and 33rd Streets. Stewart's Hotel for Working Women was commissioned by the wealthy merchant, A.T. Stewart. The hotel opened in 1877 to provide safe housing for the influx of working women into the city. It was soon reopened as a regular hotel in 1878 and renamed the Park Avenue Hotel. The building was demolished in 1927.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34015

Title: Manhattan Market.
Description: Image is an illustration of a street scene in front of the Manhattan Market which was located at 34th Street and 11th Avenue.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34011

Title: Marble Mansion at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street erected by the late Mr. A.T. Stewart.
Description: Image shows the 4th Avenue carline tunnel and Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in distance, which was located at 34th and Park Avenue.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34008

Title: Marbridge Building, Broadway, 34th to 35th Streets; modern store and office building in the new retail shopping center, admirably located at the intersection of Broadway with 34th Street, on line of L" and Hudson and Manhattan underground railway from New Jersey, which is being extended to Grand Central Station, close to the new Penn. Railroad terminal and the great hotels; steel-frame, fire-proof structure erected 1908, with latest improvements. W. R. Martin, Owner.
Description: Illustrated exterior view of building.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34093

Title: New York Homeopathic Dispensary, 109 West 34th Street.
Description: New York Homeopathic Dispensary opened in 1860.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34098

Title: North-western Dispensary, Ninth Ave corner 36th Street.
Description: Northwestern Dispensary was established in 1852 to provide medical assistance to New York City’s poor and indigent populations.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34099

Title: Nos. 1351 to 1369 Broadway, between Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Streets. Marlborough Hotel - The Toggery Shop - Young's Hats - Harris and Co., Tailors - Crawford Shoe - A Jewelry Store - Sarnoff, Hats - and Regal Shoes at the corner of Thirty-seventh Street.
Description: Broadway between 36th and 37th Streets. Exterior view of the Hotel Marborough along with adjoining businesses and buildings; the image also depicts cars, horse-drawn carriage and pedestrians.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34091

Title: Old Residence on Murray Hill, Lexington Avenue near 37th Street on the Old Boston Post Road, 1858.
Description: A print depicting three residential homes each with a fenced in yard with trees. In the yard of the nearest structure, there is a man in a horse drawn work cart and several cows grazing.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34133

Title: Old White Cottage, 34th Street and 11th Avenue.
Description: Nineteenth-century illustration of a cottage on 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34071

Title: Park Avenue.
Description: Park Avenue view heading North toward 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34009

Title: Pennsylvania Station - bird's-eye View.
Description: West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue. Aerial view of the original Penn Station designed by architects McKim, Mead and White. The image has a view of various rooftops and of pedestrians on the street below. Madison Square Garden in presently standing on this location.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34057

Title: Pennsylvania Station, New York - the dining-room.
Description: 33rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Image of the dining room of the old Penn Station.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34006

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