Old New York photos
Photographs of New York City from the 1890s to the 1940s: crowded streets and pushcart markets, the Lower East Side, the elevated railways, skyscrapers going up and ships in the harbor.
Why they are free to use: Most were published before 1931, or come from collections given to the Library of Congress without restrictions. Each photo's page shows its own licence basis and a credit line.
Street life
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Crowded street, possibly near a subway station
1910 · Library of Congress
Curb Market, N.Y. 15713140737
1915 · Library of Congress
Christmas shoppers on street, New York
1908 · Library of Congress
Boys chase garbage carts, New York, 1911
1911 · Library of Congress
Collectors in carriages for Italian earthquake sufferers, East Side, New York
1910 · Library of Congress
Mulberry St., New York, N.Y.
c. 1900 · Library of Congress
Keep moving" crowd at 57th and 5th Ave. (Szechnyi wedding) New York
1908 · Library of Congress
Breaking garbage strike at $5 day *Abstract/medium:; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
1911 · Library of Congress
Skyline and skyscrapers
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New York skyline from Jersey City
1921 · Library of Congress
Aerial Photograph of Lower Manhattan in New York City
1926-05-26 · U.S. National Archives
New York Sky-Line
1920 · Wikimedia Commons
Battery Park and New York City Skyline, New York photographed by Irving Underhill, 1929
1929 · Wikimedia Commons
Lower Manhattan by Brown Bros. circa 1920
1920 · Wikimedia Commons
Financial district rooftops III in Manhattan in 1938
1938-06-09 · Wikimedia Commons
Chrysler Building, New York, N.Y.
c. 1930 · Library of Congress
Manhattan Skyline I South Street and Jones Lane Manhattan by Berenice Abbott March 26 1936
1936-03-26 · Wikimedia Commons
The Brooklyn Bridge
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New East River bridge from Brooklyn
1900–1906 · Library of Congress
Brooklyn Bridge from tower, New York City
1907 · Library of Congress
Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn
1900–1906 · Library of Congress
The Bridge by John Paul Edwards
1921 · Wikimedia Commons
New York City: Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn
1901 · Library of Congress
Brooklyn Bridge, distant view
1888 · Library of Congress
ARIZONA 15101075388
1915 · Library of Congress
Bridge of Sighs, The Tombs, New York City
c. 1905 · Library of Congress
The harbor
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New York (1887 steamboat built Wilmington, DE) passing through Highlands, Hudson River ( det.4a22028)
1900–1908 · Library of Congress
CUBA & U.S. ships in North River
1913 · Library of Congress
Slips between Piers #3 and 4, New York City, N.Y
1920-04-03 · U.S. National Archives
Boat arriving with Gov. Clinton's body, New York Harbor
1908-05-28 · Library of Congress
German protected cruiser SMS Victoria Louise in New York 1909
c. 1909 · Library of Congress
Erie Basin busy port ca. 1920
1920 · Wikimedia Commons
Plague ship" which carries suspects to Hoffman Island quarantine, N.Y.C.
1910 · Library of Congress
U.S. Army transport "Kilpatrick" leaving NY docks with troops aboard for Boston, New York
1909 · Library of Congress
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