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.
This color postcard features aerial and panoramic views of an Erie Canal aqueduct near Schenectady, N.Y. Visible are trees- some barren, as well as farms, roads, houses and a river. The distant background features mountains. The postcard has...
Landscape; Stores, Retail; Farms; House furnishings; Furniture; Carpets; United States--New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn
"Furniture. Carpets. Illustration of farm. Man is working in cornfield in foreground, woman hanging clothes on line next to house, cows and chickens on path, mountains in background. Verso side:"Homes furnished throughout in plain or grand style,...
Winter scenes; Stores, Retail; Windmills; Farms; Rubber goods; Rubber industry and trade; United States--New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn
Illustration of snow covered landscape with sheep in foreground and houses and windmill in background. Verso side: text,"Teale Morro, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Every Description of Goodyear's Rubber Goods.."
Erie Canal; New York (State); Land sale; Advertisement.
Advertisment for New York Canal Lands on Sale that appeared on March 6, 1824 in the New-York American. Two hundred thousand acres were offered for sale on or near the intended route of the Erie Canal, anticipating accessibility by water "as soon as...
Newly opened section of the Cross Bronx Expwy.
looking east. The westbound section is still under construction. The road in the foregound is an exit ramp for the Sheridan Expwy. Also seen are Bronx River Houses on the right; and on the left, the...
Schools; Parking; Peddling; Sex Offenders; Steel Shortage; Libraries
Minutes reflect issues of concern--school prayer, double parking, itinerant street peddling, allocation of steel for West Farms library construction; and the need for legislation to address the problem of sex offenders. In--Minutes of Directors...
Woodlawn cemetery; Williams Bridge; Mosholu; Spuyten Duyvil; Kings Bridge; Jerome Park; Taylorsville; Palisade Ridge; Fort Lee; Pleasant Valley; Edgewater; Cliffside; Bulls Ferry; Guttenberg; North Guttenberg; West New York; Granton formerly...
Two-page map with color; 2 Section. It includes the wording, Watson's New Map of New York and Adjacent Cities Published by Gaylord Watson 278 Pearl Street, N.Y. 1891. It also includes a scale of miles.
