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.
Rhode Island--Commerce; South Carolina--Commerce; New York--Commerce
Letter and Bill of Exchange from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mr. E. [Ebenezer] Burrill of New York, to be paid to the order of Mess. Gardner & Dean [of Newport, Rhode Island].
Slave trade--New York (State)--New York; Slave trade--Africa, West; Slave traders--New York (State)--New York; Slavery--New York (State)--New York; Africa, West--Commerce--New York (State)--New York; New York (N.Y.)--Commerce--Africa, West; New...
Account book, 1748 Dec.-1749 Jul., kept aboard the sloop Rhode Island while on a voyage to Africa to procure slaves for her owners, Philip Livingston and sons, New York City. Peter James was shipmaster. Included are accounts for the purchase of...
Advertising--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; Billboards--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; Signs and signboards--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; Streets--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; New York...
This photo of Fifth Ave., looking northwest from 31st St., was taken about 1907. Old residential properties on and near northwest corner have been converted to commerce. At right, from 33rd to 34th Sts., (behind the street sign) stands world-famous...
A map showing the Midtown Manhattan area in 1867, well before commerce transformed it into skyscrapers and department stores. The farms are being divided into individual allotments to create housing and businesses.
Erie Canal; New York (State); Coenties Slip (N.Y.); East River (N.Y.); Canal-boats; Commerce; Inland trade; Schooners; Illustration.
Newspaper engravings found on page 1012 of Harper's Weekly dated November 15, 1873. Found on this page are two illustrations, the upper one depicting a scene on the flour docks on Coenties Slip, New York. The bottom illustration shows grain being...
Erie Canal; New York (State); Coenties Slip (N.Y.); East River (N.Y.); Canal-boats; Commerce; Inland trade; Family life; Schooners; Illustration
Newspaper engraving found on page 104 of Harper's Weekly, dated February 16, 1884. Because winter travel on the canal was difficult, many canal boats laid up along the New York waterways. This scene depicts everyday activities among the canal...
View inside Riverdale Country School for Boys, on Fieldston Road. A student is shown with the model yacht he created and which won him a first prize in a hobby competition. John F. Kennedy completed the 4th - 6th grades at this school.
Plan of the Split Rock Golf Course Clubhouse, designed by John M. Hatton, architect. Pelham Bay Park had two golf courses--Split Rock, and
Pelham, both of which share the clubhouse
Hospitals; Buildings; Billboards; Street Scenes; Advertising; Billboards; Moving Pictures
Bronx General Hospital (also known as Morrisania Hospital) showing sections under construction. Site is at 168th - 169th Sts., between Walton and Gerard Aves. The smoke stack is for the hospital's laundry room. The view is looking toward the West...
Plan showing the Concourse Village development in relation to surrounding landmarks -- the County Building, and what should be Yankee Stadium but is actually the Polo Grounds.
Billboards; Stores; Buildings; Transportation; Colleges & Universities; Street Scenes
View at corner of the Grand Concourse & E. 188th St. looking west at billboards, automobiles, an IND subway entrance, and stores, including Wertheimer--later Alexander's.
(This site now houses 'CUNY on the Concourse,' operated by Lehman College,...
At the Grand Concourse & East 166th St. is a home endowed to care for persons who were once wealthy but who lost their money. In--Bronxboro, Vol V., No. 1, pp. 16-17.
Description of the world's largest publisher of library indexes and reference books, which serves customers all around the world. In--Bronxboro, Vol. XXXVI, Summer, pp. 5, 15-16.
Public Buildings; Colleges & Universities; Reservoirs
Resolutions introduced at a Bronx Board of Trade special meeting were for a municipal building to consolidate services; and for use of the unassigned portion of the Jerome Park Reservoir as the Hunter College site. In-- Bronxboro, Vol. IV, Nos 10 &...
