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Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City
ap/daily mail ^
| april 24, 2012
Posted on 04/27/2012 1:25:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
Almost a million images of New York and its municipal operations have been made public for the first time on the internet.
The city's Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database.
Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the 870,000 photographs feature all manner of city oversight --from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; newyork; newyorkcity; ny; photos; piclesspicthread; sidewalksofnewyork
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posted on
04/27/2012 1:25:13 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
They still have the same old grit!
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posted on
04/27/2012 1:27:05 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: lowbridge
No free food, free housing, free medical care, free cell phones and free laptops for those folks.
Work or starve.
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posted on
04/27/2012 1:31:05 PM PDT
by
EyeGuy
(Non-Holder person.)
To: lowbridge
Lucky Luciano
Andrew Cuomo
Separated at birth?
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posted on
04/27/2012 1:33:15 PM PDT
by
GnL
To: lowbridge
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posted on
04/27/2012 1:35:03 PM PDT
by
paudio
(no tagline for now...)
To: lowbridge
Great find - thanks for posting. I'm originally from NYC and my ancestors lived there from 1851 - 1965.
This photo, IIRC, shows an area in Brooklyn now (being gentrified) known as DUMBO - Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
My great aunt lived a few streets away in 1910, in area known as Vinegar Hill.
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posted on
04/27/2012 1:37:24 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: lowbridge
Visit: http://www.shorpy.com/
Hundreds of pictures dating from the Civil War. Many early 1900’s pictures of NYC and other cities circa 1900-1920’s on.
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posted on
04/27/2012 1:43:18 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: lowbridge
PS - those supposed “never before seen” pictures are on Shorpy.com
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posted on
04/27/2012 1:44:10 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: lowbridge
I had a book entitled, Letters to America. A sister in Endland coresponds with her sister in America Circa 1820.
She describes NYC as charming, friendly, and clean.
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posted on
04/27/2012 1:52:24 PM PDT
by
Leep
(Enemy of the Statist)
To: lowbridge
I bet there is not a shred of graffiti to be found in the pics.
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posted on
04/27/2012 1:55:21 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: dfwgator
Back before the collapse of civilization.
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posted on
04/27/2012 2:04:11 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: lowbridge
Like a time machine.
I have many snapshots from the era in family photos, but these are large format shots taken by pros, of life at the time.
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posted on
04/27/2012 2:05:22 PM PDT
by
cicero2k
To: oh8eleven
My ancestors as well ... our Patriarch was a Hessian Conscript fighting for the British... his tour of duty ended as a Prisoner in New York.. he was given the choice to return to Europe or stay ... he stayed ... and I get to speak English
TT
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posted on
04/27/2012 2:17:35 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
To: lowbridge
It's not 'never before seen' but it is gritty...
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posted on
04/27/2012 2:28:05 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: oh8eleven
This:
Reminded me instantly of this:
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posted on
04/27/2012 2:29:08 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: lowbridge
Had to chuckle at the picture of W 40th and 6th.
The entrance to the building where I worked in the mid 60’s is mere feet from there, but it sure looked a wholebunchalot different. ;)
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posted on
04/27/2012 2:29:43 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: lowbridge; a fool in paradise
IMPORTANT NOTE: All people in the pictures, including those unseen but present at the time inside the buildings, stores, trains and churches, are now dead.
To: oh8eleven
My great grandparents and my grandfather lived at the other end of the Manhattan Bridge, on Catherine Street.
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posted on
04/27/2012 2:40:51 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
To: lowbridge
To: lowbridge
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posted on
04/27/2012 2:48:14 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
(Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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