Vintage Photos of Immigrants Approaching the Statue of Liberty
This post was originally published on this siteBetween 1886 and 1924, almost 14 million immigrants entered the United States through New York. The Statue of […]
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Vintage photos show the chaotic holiday shopping in New York City, 1910
This post was originally published on this siteThese amazing vintage photos show what it was like to go holiday shopping in New York City in […]
34 Amazing Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Spanish Harlem in the Mid-1980s
This post was originally published on this siteSpanish Harlem, New York’s oldest barrio, is the U.S. mecca where Puerto Ricans first established themselves in the […]
Fantastic Vintage Color Photos of New York City in the Late 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteManel Armengo is a Spanish photographer. He studied journalism in Barcelona and has been doing photojournalism independently since […]
Vintage Photos of NYC Subway Riders From the Late 1970s to Early 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteFrom 1977 to 1985, famous Swiss photographer Willy Spiller lived in “The Big Apple”. During his seven-year stay, […]
50 Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of New York City in the 1990s
This post was originally published on this siteAt the dawn of the 1990s, New York City was in an unremittingly bleak state. Following two decades […]
The street scenes and everyday life of New York City by Wallace G. Levison, 1880-1900
This post was originally published on this siteThese stunning photographs show how New York City looked like in the 1880s and 1890s. The images depict […]
Fabulous Images Documenting the Phenomenon of Voguing in New York’s House Ballrooms in the Late 1980s and Early 90s
This post was originally published on this siteVoguing came out of the extraordinary house ballroom scene that emerged in Harlem, New York in the 1980s […]
Life of a New York Family in the 1970s Through Beautiful Photos
This post was originally published on this siteReeling from a decade of social turmoil, New York in the 1970s fell into a deep tailspin provoked […]
35 Fascinating Vintage Photos of Life in New York in 1978
This post was originally published on this siteManel Armengo is a Spanish photographer. He studied journalism in Barcelona. Since 1971 he has been doing photojournalism […]
30 Amazing Snapshots Capture Street Life in New York City From the Mid-1930s to the End of the 1940s
This post was originally published on this siteIn the late 1930s, photographer Helen Levitt rode the New York City subway system, first as an apprentice […]
Beautiful Vintage Kodachrome Photos of Mid-Century Manhattan, New York City
This post was originally published on this siteThese Kodachrome photographs were taken by Harold Mayer, a pioneer of urban geography and specialist in urban and […]
Chatham Square, New York, ca. 1853–55
This post was originally published on this siteThis chaotic street scene shows Chatham Street, now Park Row, from below its intersection with Pearl Street, northeast […]
Beautiful Vintage Slides of New York City in the ‘60s
This post was originally published on this siteThese fascinating slides were taken by amateur photographer Jack Lillywhite. “My in-laws – Jack and Jan Lillywhite – […]
No Pictures PLEASE! Jackie Kennedy Flipped Down a Paparazzi on a Manhattan Sidewalk, 1969
This post was originally published on this siteFormer First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis proved she was a force to be reckoned with when she used […]
Street Styles of the 1980s New Yorkers Taken by Amy Arbus
This post was originally published on this siteAmerican photographer Amy Arbus has been creating photographic portraits since the 1980s. She has published five books, including […]
Life and Love on the New York City Subway Captured by a Young Stanley Kubrick
This post was originally published on this siteBefore Stanley Kubrick went down as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time in history, he was […]
Crazy Double-Faced Swimming Caps of the Late 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteThese vintage crazy swimming caps were invented by a Long Island housewife, Betty Geib, to amuse her children. […]
The story of New York City’s swimming pools through photographs, 1930-1960
This post was originally published on this site New Yorkers have been taking the plunge in the Big Apple since the late 1800s, when the […]
Strange Beauty Mask, 1940
This post was originally published on this siteMarch 1940 — At the International Beauty Shop Owners’ show in New York City, Ruth Scott modeled a […]
In 1907, a Shipload of 1,000 Immigrant Women From the Baltic Seeking Husbands Came to New York
This post was originally published on this siteWas there really a shortage of marriage-minded women in the United States in the early 1900s? Apparently rumors […]
Vibrant Vintage Photos of New York in the ‘80s
This post was originally published on this siteRobert Herman has been a street photographer since his days as an NYU film student in the late […]
35 Amazing Postcards Capture Swimming Pools of New York in the 1950s and ’60s
This post was originally published on this siteThe Amateur Swimming Association was founded in 1869 in England and the Oxford Swimming Club in 1909. The […]
Winter, Fifth Avenue (1893)
This post was originally published on this siteWinter, Fifth Avenue is a black and white photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1893. The photograph was […]
18 Vintage Photographs of Coney Island, New York During the 1940s
This post was originally published on this siteIt was a troubling decade: America was a nation healing from the Great Depression, and had spent four […]