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Subway construction for the 7 Line.
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The southeast corner of 36th Street and Eleventh Avenue shows the construction of the 7 subway line, which will eventually run to the Jacob K. Javitts Convention Center on the West Side. Midtown buildings rise behind while signs near the corner explain what the construction is doing.
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still image
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Genre
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34240
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Title
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Keens Steakhouse exterior, 72 West 36th Street.
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Description
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Exterior view of Keens Steakhouse, which was formerly the Lambs Club, the oldest social club for professionals in the performing arts in the United States.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34228
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Title
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Tenement building.
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Description
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37th Street and Tenth Avenue. This is one of the last tenement buildings left. Originally built to house New York’s poor, tenement buildings covered the West Side and other parts of the city. This building is next to an abandoned gas station as well as a billboard.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34243
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Title
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Empire State Building, 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.
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Description
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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.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Prints
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Local Identifier
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34002
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Title
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Tiffany & Co. Building façade.
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Description
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401 Fifth Avenue and 37th Street, SE corner. Tiffany & Co. Building Fifth Avenue designed by McKim, Mead and White.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34208
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Title
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An Audience at the Casino.
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An image taken from the stage toward a two-level auditorium filled with theatre goers, Broadway at West 39th Street. The orchestra pit and its members are all visible. The audience is well dressed, many men in evening wear. Designed by Architects Kimbal & Wisedell, the Casino Theatre stood on this corner from 1882 to 1930. It was renovated and partially reconstructed in 1905 following a fire. For approximately 50 years, some under the management of the Shuberts, the theatre showed musicals, operettas and vaudeville acts.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Photographs
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Local Identifier
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34150
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Title
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The Casino Theatre and Abbey's Theatre.
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Description
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The caption reads: "The Casino and Abbey's Theatre, Broadway Thirty-sixth to Thirty-eighth Street." The Casino Theatre was built by Kimball & Wisedell for producer Rudolph Aronson. Managed by Canary & Lederer (1894-1903) the Shuberts acquired the lease. The theater was reconstructed after a 1905 fire and demolished in 1930. Abbey’s Theatre (white building) was built by J.B. McElfatrick & Co., and named for producer and theatre manager Henry Abbey. In 1896, Al Hayman and his Theatrical Syndicate group took control of the theater after Abbey’s death and renamed it the Knickerbocker. In 1906, the Knickerbocker became the first building on Broadway to have a moving electric sign. The building was sold after the 1929 stock market crash and was also demolished in 1930.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Prints
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Local Identifier
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34174
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Title
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Herald Square Hotel.
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Description
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One Block East of Pennsylvania Terminal from Hudson tubes Connecting at Hoboken with Lackawanna R.R. & Ocean Steamship piers; at Jersey City with Erie R.R. Crosstown cars passing the Hotel transfer to Grand Central Station (8 minutes) and other parts of the city. Theatres and shopping district in easy walking distance. 34th Street and Broadway.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Postcards
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Local Identifier
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34062
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Title
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Manhattan Center - interior.
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Description
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Interior view of the Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34232
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Title
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The Palm Room of the Imperial.
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Description
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A drawing of the tea room at the Hotel Imperial, Broadway and 32nd Street.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Prints
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Local Identifier
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34139
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Title
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Gorham Building façade.
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Description
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Gorham Building on Fifth Avenue and 36th Street designed by McKim, Mead and White.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34209
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Title
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Region of bone-boiling and swill-milk nuisances, 1865.
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Description
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Map of slaughterhouses, bone-boiling establishments, lumber yard, manure yard and pork-packing houses on 10th and 11th Avenues between 37th and 40th Streets in 1865.
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Type
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cartographic
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Genre
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Maps
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Local Identifier
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34077
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Title
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Empire State Building.
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Description
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350 Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets. This color postcard is an idealized drawing of the Empire State Building. At the base of the building are houses and tenements. Next to the building is a list of structures with the dates of when these buildings stood on the site before the Empire State Building was built in 1931. Designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet high and was once the tallest building in the world.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Postcards
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Local Identifier
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34187
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Title
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New Post Office Building.
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Description
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West 34th Street between West 33rd and 35th Streets. Caption reads: "New Post Office Building situated between 31st and 33d Streets. This handsome building was completed in 1913 at the cost of $6,200,000. It faces the Pennsylvania Terminal and is built over the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The building covers a plot 375 by 335 feet and was built of granite in classic style architecture." The bordered photograph shows a couple walking along the sidewalk and several horse-drawn carts or carriages going down the street.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Photographs
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Local Identifier
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34170
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Title
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Vanderbilt Hotel, 4 Park Avenue between 33rd & 34th Streets.
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Description
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Building designed by the architectural firm Warren & Wetmore in 1913; converted to an apartment building in 1965. The Empire State Building is featured in the background.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34200
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Title
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Thirty-third Street and Broadway.
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Description
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Image of 33rd Street and Broadway toward the end of the 19th Century showing an elevated train station and horse drawn carriages facing the area that later became Greeley Square.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Photographs
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Local Identifier
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34123
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Title
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Fifth Avenue and 34th St. looking south, 1893.
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Description
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Astor Residence, Waldorf Hotel, Holland House Hotel, Marble Collegiate Church in the distance. The image also features horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Photographs
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Local Identifier
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34050
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Title
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The Hotel Vanderbilt.
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Description
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Park Avenue and 34th Street. Photograph by Van der Weyde. The Hotel Vanderbilt and on the right the entrance to the old Park Avenue tunnel. The image shows automobile, street-railroads and pedestrian traffic.
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still image
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Genre
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Photographs
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Local Identifier
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34054
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Title
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The Court of the Park Avenue Hotel.
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Description
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Park Avenue and 34th Street. A drawing of a waiter at the Hotel Imperior’s garden court yard preparing to serve guests.
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still image
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Genre
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Prints
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Local Identifier
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34138
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Title
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William Sloane House, Y.M.C.A. - 366 West 34th Street - New York, N.Y.
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Description
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Color postcard depicting the William Sloan House (Y.M.C.A) on the right and a map of midtown Manhattan on the left featuring such well-known landmarks as: the Empire State Building, Pennsylvania Station, the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Opera House.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Postcards
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Local Identifier
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34068
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Title
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Empire State Building, 5th Ave. & 34th St. N.Y.
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Description
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View of Fifth Avenue looking north toward construction of the Empire State Building. Background depicts construction of the Chrysler building.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Photographs
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Local Identifier
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34108
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Title
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Pennsylvania Station, two views of façade.
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Description
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Seventh Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets. Exterior views of the station's main entrance, from north and south of Seventh Avenue featuring horse-drawn delivery wagons.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Negatives
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Local Identifier
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34115
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Title
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Church of St. Michael.
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Description
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424 West 34th Street. The original church building was on West 32nd Street. In 1906, construction of the Pennsylvania Station Rail Road Yard required that the church be moved to West 34th Street.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34236
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Title
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Fifth Avenue & vicinity.
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Description
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Fifth Avenue looking north from 33rd Street, with pedestrians, automobiles and street food vendor. Depicts southeast corner of Empire State Building.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Digital images
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Local Identifier
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34201
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Title
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Herald Square and Broadway, north at 33rd St.
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Description
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33rd Street and Broadway. Image shows Saks 34th Street, Sixth Ave. el train, McAlpin Hotel, Wilson Building, Herald Building and Times Building.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Photographs
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Local Identifier
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34012
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Title
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Interior of Altman Department Store.
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Description
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365 Fifth Avenue. Interior of B. Altman Department Store featuring the building's original rotunda and three floors of merchandise.
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still image
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Genre
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Photographs
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Local Identifier
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34045
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Title
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The Manhattan Abattoir.
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Description
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This abattoir, commonly referred to as a slaughterhouse today, was on the site of the Manhattan Market building, 11th-12th Avenues, from 34th-35th Streets. Printed on image: "The company's dock." "Tunnel from dock." "Killing." "Cleaning." "Ice house." "Rendering room." "Sacking for shipment." "Exportation." Printed on border: "From sketches by V.L. Kingsbury. -- [See page 530.]"
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Prints
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Local Identifier
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34027
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Title
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Daly's Theater, Broadway and Thirtieth Street.
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Description
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Broadway and 30th Street. Curbside photograph of Daly's Theatre that includes several store fronts with billboards occupying the ground floor of the building.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Photographs
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Local Identifier
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34148
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Title
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Advertisement for the Long Island City Absolute Auction Sale.
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Description
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Advertisement for land available for purchase in the Long Island City area right across from Manhattan. It targets people who want to move out of the city, yet desire easy access into and out of the city. The five cents refers to the fare to get into the city by public transportation. The sale was held Saturday, September 25, 1915.
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Type
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text
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Genre
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Advertisements
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Local Identifier
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34184
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Title
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Map of area surrounding Waldorf building.
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Description
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Depicts location of retail and other businesses in the area. Sales prospectus booklet "Waldorf Building: 33rd Street-Fifth Avenue, New York City" inside front cover.
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Type
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cartographic
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Genre
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Maps
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Local Identifier
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34101
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Title
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City blocks of 34th Street between 5th Avenue and 7th Avenue.
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Description
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This cropped image shows two blocks between 5th Avenue and 7th Avenue and between 33rd Street and 35th Street. The buildings, colored in red, include Saks, R.H. Macy's, Gimbels, Hotel McAlpin, Hotel Pennsylvania and the Empire State Building. On the map, Broadway crosses 6th Avenue and 35th Street to create Herald Square.
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Type
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cartographic
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Genre
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Maps
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Local Identifier
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34166CR
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Title
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The New Gorham Building at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-Sixth Street.
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Description
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390 Fifth Avenue. Exterior image of the Gorham Building which was completed in 1906. It was designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead, and White in the early Florentine Renaissance style with double height Doric columns at street and roof levels. The building continues to occupy this space. It was designated as a Landmark Site by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1998.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Photographs
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Local Identifier
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34125
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Title
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Pennsylvania Station, New York. Thirty-third Street carriage driveway, looking east.
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Description
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33rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The image is from an article in a bound volume of essays from various sources entitled "Magazine Articles on New York City". The writer of the article, Symmes Richardson, was an engineer and a partner of Charles McKim.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Prints
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Local Identifier
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34004
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Title
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The Fourth Avenue Front, Stewart's Hotel for Working Women.
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Description
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Fourth Avenue, 32nd and 33rd Streets. Illustration of street scene in front of the Stewart's Hotel for Working Women. 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.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Prints
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Local Identifier
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34014
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