NEW YORK. THE Big Apple. The City That Never Sleeps. The Centre of the Universe.
Historically, Manhattan has been the hub of many important movements and milestones. It is also a town where rich and poor, black and white, Americans and immigrants have lived side-by-side for centuries.
The Library of Congress in the US has been working on digitising thousands of images from the city’s archives, giving a snapshot into the ordinary lives of New Yorkers through the years.
Be they images of Suffrage parades or a young boy on a paper round, the stills are fascinating, brilliant and engrossing. The NYCPast Tumbler has picked out some of its favourites, which we have reproduced here.
Enjoy.
Suffragists marching in 1913.
This photo was taken during a newspaper round at 1am on Sunday 23 February 1908. John Newman said he was 16 years old but the photographer believes he was only about 13. He does not attend school, said a witness F. McMurry. Photographer: Lewis Wickes Hine
A flag-raising ceremony in Little Italy in honour of Mott Street boys in the US Army. Photographer: Marjory Collins
Women marchers in New York. (Image: Bain News Service)
A push cart market on the east side. (Image: George Grantham Bain Collection)
Licking ice on a hot city day. The children were pictured in front of a grocery store. Photographer unknown.
The concourse in Grand Central Terminal. (Images: Detroit Publishing Co.)
After a snowstorm. (Image: Detroit Publishing Co.)
Photograph shows a Navy recruiting station next to the Flatiron Building, New York City. (Image: Bain News Service)
Photo shows Miss Elizabeth Haldane (wearing hat with white plume), sister of Viscount Haldane; Judge Dickinson (carrying umbrella), and J.P. Morgan at the Columbia Yacht Club, located at the foot of 86th Street, New York City. (Image: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and New York Times, August 25, 1913)
Horse drawn sleigh in Central Park, New York City. (Image: Bain News Service)
Christmas shoppers on Sixth Avenue. (Images: Bain News Service)
(Image: Detroit Publishing)
Photographer: John Vachon
A Labor Day meeting in Union Square. (Image: Bain News Service)
The Tudor City Complex, Woodstock Tower at 320 East 42nd Street.
More navy recruitment. (Image: Bain News Service)
Photographer: John Vachon
A street cleaner on Washington Street on the west side. Photographer: John Vachon
The Times Building can be seen in the background. (Image: Detroit Publishing Co.)
Smog obscures the view of the Chrysler Building from the Empire State Building. Photographer: Walter Albertin
A Camel cigarette billboard on Times Square. Photographer: John Vachon
Photomural to promote the sale of defence bonds, designed by the Farm Security Administration, in the concourse of the Grand Central terminal. Photographer: Arthur Rothstein
(Image: Detroit Publishing Co.)
A Fifth Avenue stage. (Image: Detroit Publishing Co.)
Train tracks and horse-drawn carts on 11th Avenue. (Image: Bain News Service)
A banquet in honour of Frederick A Cook, MD by the Arctic Club of America in September 1909. (Image: Geo R Lawrence Co.)
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