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...
Santa with children at the annual Muscular Dystrophy Assn. chapter holiday party. For some patients, attending this party is the only time that they leave their homes during the year.
A Bronx Rotary Club banner bearing the seal of the Borough of the Bronx anticipates the arrival of Rotarians from 128 countries who are expected to attend the 1964 New York World's Fair. Rotarians are known for their youth services programs and...
Plan for P.S. 112 at 260 W. Kingsbridge Rd. & Bailey Ave. by architects Chapman, Evans & Delehanty. The school is known locally as the Marble Hill School. The ground breaking ceremony for the school was on June 12, 1951.
Plan for P.S. 22 by Eric Kebbon, Architect and Supt. Of School Buildings. The school opened in 1949 and is located at Morris Ave. & E. 167th St. The school is now Jordan L. Mott J.H.S.
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 for St. Philip Neri School on the Grand Concourse. Starrett & Van Vleck, Architects. Church and rectory buildings are to the left. The school opened in Sept., 1948.
View of William Howard Taft H.S. and surrounding streets on the day that dedication ceremonies were held at the school. The school is on Sheridan Ave. & E. 172nd St.
Looking southeast from 138th St. at the Bronx shoreline of the Harlem River and showing the NYS Canal Terminal building and the Park Ave. bridge of the New York Central Railroad.
Banks; Street Scenes; Monuments; Buildings; Stores; Pianos; Wars; World War I
Looking south from Graham Square at 139th St. & Third Ave. to the Bronx County Trust Co. building. On the left, at 138th St. & Third Ave., is the Bronx Local Board #2 World War Memorial. This was sculpted by the Menconi Brothers. In the distance is...
Street Scenes; Banks; Monuments; Businesses; Organizations; Transportation; Wars; Ethnic Groups; Dancing; Spanish American War; World War I
Bronx County Trust Co.'s Mott Haven Office at 137th St. between Lincoln & Third Ave. The Bronx Board of Trade had offices in this building. The upper floors were used by the All Ireland Ballrooms for Irish dancing. In the foreground is the Charles...
Actress Gloria Swanson lends support to raising $340,000 for the Society's campaign, of which the Bronx goal is $10,000. The Society helps all aged, handicapped, helpless and lost at the local railroads, bus terminals and piers.
Parade; Street Scenes; Organizations; Police; Children; Events; Housing
Children march along Alexander Ave. south of E. 138th St. in a Raggamuffin Parade sponsored by PAL (Police Athletic League). The apartment buildings shown on the left were torn down for the John Purroy Mitchell Houses after World War II. The 40th...
Street Scenes; Transportation; Buildings; Department Stores; Advertising
149th St. from Courtlandt Ave. looking toward Third Ave. and the El. The Busher Building is on the left, and Hearns Department Store is beyond the Third Ave. El. Note also billboards.
Busy traffic scene at E. 149th St. & Third Ave. showing automobilies, buses, an elevated subway line, taxi and even Hearns Dept. Store employees on strike.
