Spence School Library: New York City History Primary Source Archives: PS: Visuals

Images

Museum of the City of New York
"Explore New York’s past through over 165,000 images and objects." Photo collections by: Stanley Kubrick, Jacob Riis (1849-1914) - Author of "How the Other Half Lives", Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) and more.
Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York
Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York (DCMNY) provides online access to digital collections of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies located in and around New York City.
Community Service Society Photographs
Almost 1400 photographs from the Community Service Society Records. They offer representations of urban poverty, unsafe tenement housing, inadequate hygiene in public areas, and other pressing social issues in late-19th- and early-20th-century New York.
New-York Historical Society, Photographs of New York City and Beyond
"Documentary images of New York-area buildings and street scenes from 1839 to 1945."
BridgesNYC: Postcards
Shayna Marchese
The Brooklyn Historical Society Photography Collection
"50,000 photographs from the 1870s to the present."
Fading Ad Blog
By Frank H. Jump. "The Fading Ad Campaign began as a photographic project documenting vintage mural ads on building brickfaces in New York City spanning nearly a century."
New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery
Gallery of over 900,000 images
NYC Photo Library
"Our 20,000+ image collection has been gathered by our photographers from every neighborhood in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as the other boroughs."

Mapped Historical Photos

SepiaTown
Mapped Historic Photos
Old NYC: Mapping Historical Photos from the NYPL
"This site provides an alternative way of browsing the NYPL's incredible Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s collection."

Then and Now

Street View, Then & Now: New York City's Fifth Avenue
FROM THE NYPL "With this public domain remix, you can compare the photos from the 1911 Fifth Avenue from Start to Finish collection with 2015's Google Street View."
Forgotten New York
Kevin Walsh. Forgotten New York is a program of the Greater Astoria Historical Society. Look for the right hand side bar to discover images and maps of historical sites.
Places That Are No More
Blog created by Todd Berkun.

Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 91st Street" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 21, 2016. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-e86b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

91st Street: 1865

New York Public Library Image Collections

New York Public Library Digital Collections: New York Collections
Collection Highlights: "Classic Six:" New York City Apartment Building Living, 1880s-1910s; Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's; New York World's Fair 1964-1965; Photos from the New York City Tenement House Department, Fifth Avenue, New York, from start to finish.
Streetscape and Townscape of Metropolitan New York City, 1860-1942 from the NYPL
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection from the NYPL
Collection of photographs of New York City, 1931-1942 from the NYPL
Thirty Years of Photography at The New York Public Library
Changing New York
"Photographer Berenice Abbott proposed Changing New York, her grand project to document New York City, to the Federal Art Project (FAP) in 1935."

Video

The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
Library of Congress
Notable New Yorkers
Columbia University. "The Notable New Yorkers Web site offers audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with ten influential New Yorkers."
MyFootage.com
Stock videos from the United States.

Public Art

Groundswell: Public Art
Groundswell "art projects beautify neighborhoods, engage youth in societal and personal transformation, and give expression to ideas and perspectives that are underrepresented in the public dialogue."
Public Art Fund
Public Art Fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in New York City.