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New York Transportation HistoryCreated by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1920
Reclining man looming over New York City subway station
The history of New York City's transportation system. New York City is distinguished from other U.S. cities for its low personal automobile ownership and its significant use of public transportation. New York is the only city in the United States where over half of all households do not own a car (Manhattan's non-ownership is even higher, around 75%; nationally, the rate is 8%). New York City has, by far, the highest rate of public transportation use of any American city. New York City also has the longest mean travel time for commuters (39 minutes) among major U.S. cities.

The Second Industrial Revolution fundamentally changed the city – the port infrastructure grew at such a rapid pace after the 1825 completion of the Erie Canal that New York became the most important connection between all of Europe and the interior of the United States. Elevated trains and subterranean transportation ('El trains' and 'subways') were introduced between 1867 and 1904. Private automobiles brought an additional change for the city by around 1930, notably the 1927 Holland Tunnel.
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Grand Central Post Office Annex, Forty-fifth Street & Lexington Avenue, Southwest corner, New York, New York County, NY

Grand Central Post Office Annex, Forty-fifth Street & Lexington Avenue...

Significance: The Grand Central Post Office Annex was envisioned as a key element of the Grand Central Station complex, one of the most important example of monumental urban planning in the United States. Desig... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, New York, New York County, NY

Holland Tunnel, Beneath Hudson River between New York & Jersey City, N...

Significance: The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) jointly designated, on May 2, 1984, the Holland Tunnel as an engineering landmark "... in rec... More

Mott St., New York - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Mott St., New York - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "705-11" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012682. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Ticket office, City Hall subway station, New York

Ticket office, City Hall subway station, New York

"338" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017292. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Election night in New York -- Times B'ld'g. and the "Great White Way" (B'dway from 42nd to 34th Sts.)

Election night in New York -- Times B'ld'g. and the "Great White Way" ...

H89656 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.). Patented April 14, 1903. No. 69.

Suffragettes at train tracks, New York

Suffragettes at train tracks, New York

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Third Avenue Elevated, New York, New York County, NY

Third Avenue Elevated, New York, New York County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-6373 Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Inf...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New York, New York. Women waiting for an elevated train at 67th Street and Third Avenue station, 8:30 a.m

New York, New York. Women waiting for an elevated train at 67th Street...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New York, New York. Boarding interstate buses at the Greyhound bus terminal, 34th Street

New York, New York. Boarding interstate buses at the Greyhound bus ter...

Public domain photograph of bus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man reading a newspaper. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man reading a newspaper. Office of War In...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A couple of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk. Office of W...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Interior detail

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 592. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Early model

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 532. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Interior

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 587. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Model in construction

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 544. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Interior

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 581. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Grossinger's bus, Liberty, New York

Grossinger's bus, Liberty, New York

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Catskills, Borscht Belt. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside A... More

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated line...

High Line was created on the abandoned New York Central Railroad West Side Line in Manhattan. Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the spur was redesigned as a "living system... More

Clipper ship Great Republic. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope Card.

Clipper ship Great Republic. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope...

Photograph shows the Clipper Ship Great Republic docked at the Wall Street Ferry terminal, Brooklyn, New York City, N.Y. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GNY 4. Forms part o... More

A black and white photo of a woman bending over. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman bending over. Office of War Informa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

The famous Bowery, North from Grand Street, New York City, U.S.A

The famous Bowery, North from Grand Street, New York City, U.S.A

H36645 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright 1903 by H.C. White Co. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.) Patented April 14, 1903. No. 9.

Pennsylvania Station, main concourse, track levels, stair entrance, New York, N.Y.

Pennsylvania Station, main concourse, track levels, stair entrance, Ne...

Title from jacket. "G 7522" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039797. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

110th Street "l" station, New York

110th Street "l" station, New York

"2831 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018529. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Motorists starting for Florida, New York

Motorists starting for Florida, New York

Photograph shows group of people in a train station, New York City. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negati... More

Hudson Terminal Bldgs., 30-50 Church St.

Hudson Terminal Bldgs., 30-50 Church St.

H111586 U.S. Copyright Office. No. E385. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York.

Motor Car "L" Road - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Motor Car "L" Road - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a subway car on the 6th Avenue elevated railroad train southbound at 34th St-Herald Square during the strike of the New York Railway company in Sept. 1916. Iron screens were used on the windows... More

Unidentified African American soldier in uniform and service hat on train with signs reading "We got the Kaiser" and "Just arrived St. Louis"

Unidentified African American soldier in uniform and service hat on tr...

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: Orton and Pat Begner, Rochester, New York, via Civil War Collectables, Kendall, New York, February 2017.

Berlin's new subway. A new crosstown subway designed to relieve the downtown congestion is being dug in Berlin much after the manner of subway building in New York. While under construction the street is closed to vehicle traffic the pedestrian traffic being provided for by foot bridges over the regular sidewalks. Heavy steel girders form the foundation for the street, the subway being directly under it

Berlin's new subway. A new crosstown subway designed to relieve the do...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: T.T. & C. Group title: Berlin, Germany. Gift; American Nation... More

Ferry boats still make train connections which transports passengers in and out of New York City

Ferry boats still make train connections which transports passengers i...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a man and a woman sitting on a bench - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man and a woman sitting on a bench - FSA ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a man holding a bag of food - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a bag of food - FSA / Office ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a store front. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a store front. Office of War Information Ph...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of two men standing next to a train. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two men standing next to a train. Office of...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Column study

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 538. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The dark and dingy but still functional (as of 2018) Chambers Street Station of the New York City subway system

The dark and dingy but still functional (as of 2018) Chambers Street S...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

N.Y. harbor from the Battery - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

N.Y. harbor from the Battery - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

5 negatives form one panorama with close variant of each negative. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10169, 10168, 10167, 10166, 10165 for one set of negatives and 10174, 10... More

Weighlock Building, Erie Boulevard East & Montgomery Street, Syracuse, Onondaga County, NY

Weighlock Building, Erie Boulevard East & Montgomery Street, Syracuse,...

Significance: A unique building at the junction of the Erie Canal and the Oswego branch, built for collecting tolls and inspecting boats. The third such structure on this site, housed weighing lock with scales ... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Along the noted Bowery, New York, U.S.A

Along the noted Bowery, New York, U.S.A

21404 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright 1894 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, Liverpool; New York; Chicago; Toronto; Ottawa, Kas; El Paso, Tex.

Roadway and cars, Brooklyn Bridge N.Y

Roadway and cars, Brooklyn Bridge N.Y

6175 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 177. Public domain photograph of a freight train wagon, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

South ferry and elevated railway, N.Y

South ferry and elevated railway, N.Y

Public domain image of 19th-century New York City architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Twenty-third Street piers, North River, New York, N.Y.

Twenty-third Street piers, North River, New York, N.Y.

Title from jacket. "Pennsylvania Railroad" on building. "G 7567" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500207. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Marine terminals, New York, N.Y.

Marine terminals, New York, N.Y.

Title devised by cataloger. The Starin Transportation Lines, [Delaware,] Lackawanna & Western R.R., and New Haven Line" on left terminal. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071389. Gift; State Historical Society of Col... More

Track level and concourses, Penn. Pennsylvania Station, New York, N.Y

Track level and concourses, Penn. Pennsylvania Station, New York, N.Y

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071936. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Jefferson Market Court House, New York

Jefferson Market Court House, New York

"2776" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018604. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Picturesque New York twelve photogravures from monotypes by C.F.W Mielatz. No. 6, Rose Street Mielatz 1904

Picturesque New York twelve photogravures from monotypes by C.F.W Miel...

Print shows a street view of Rose Street in New York City, N.Y., showing cobblestone street, sidewalks, pedestrians, fire escapes, and the elevated railroad in the background. Signed and dated on plate. Paper ... More

23rd Twenty-third Street, east from 6th Ave. Sixth Avenue, New York, N.Y

23rd Twenty-third Street, east from 6th Ave. Sixth Avenue, New York, N...

"H 340" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070760. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Children playing in street, New York

Children playing in street, New York

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

9th Ave. "L" - Raised track - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

9th Ave. "L" - Raised track - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Photograph shows the express tracks of the Ninth Avenue El (elevated railroad) at 13th Street in New York City. The new configuration for express trains was done as part of a system upgrade from 1914-1915. (So... More

A group of men standing next to each other - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to each other - FSA / Office of War Infor...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat. Office of War Informat...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of two trains on tracks. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two trains on tracks. Office of War Informa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of people waiting at a train station. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of people waiting at a train station. Office o...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

The George Washington Bridge, known informally as the GW Bridge, the GWB, the GW, or the George, is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River between the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and Fort Lee, New Jersey

The George Washington Bridge, known informally as the GW Bridge, the G...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As of 2016, the George Washington Bridge carried over 103 million vehicles per year, making it the world's busiest motor vehicle bridg... More

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks. Office of War Inform...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Path Transit System Bridge, Spanning Hackensack River, Kearny, Hudson County, NJ

Path Transit System Bridge, Spanning Hackensack River, Kearny, Hudson ...

Significance: This structure is one of a series of bridges constructed in the early twentieth century to carry railroad lines through northern New Jersey towards New York City. It is a skewed vertical lift bri... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York, N.Y.

Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York, N.Y.

Photograph shows street scene with a double-decker bus at the left. Title from jacket. "H 457" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036485. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Main concourse, looking north, Grand Central Terminal, New York, N.Y.

Main concourse, looking north, Grand Central Terminal, New York, N.Y.

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500677. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Broadway and Hotel Victoria, New York, N.Y

Broadway and Hotel Victoria, New York, N.Y

Hotel Victoria is building at left with flag. "G 5143" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070805. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The Otis Elevating Railway and Catskill Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, N.Y

The Otis Elevating Railway and Catskill Mountain House, Catskill Mount...

"312-G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 014492. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Flatiron Building, New York, N.Y.

Flatiron Building, New York, N.Y.

Title from jacket. Fifth Avenue Hotel at right. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033049. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Main concourse, Grand Central Terminal, N.Y. Central Lines, New York

Main concourse, Grand Central Terminal, N.Y. Central Lines, New York

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072981. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The Bowery, New York City, U.S.A

The Bowery, New York City, U.S.A

H66056 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright 1905 by R. R. Whiting. On mount: Twentieth Century Series. No. 404.

North up B'dway from 32nd St., Herald and Times (26 stories) b'ld'gs. in distance, New York, U.S.A

North up B'dway from 32nd St., Herald and Times (26 stories) b'ld'gs. ...

H90091 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.). Patented April 14, 1903. No. 59.

Rapid transit map of Manhattan and adjacent districts of New York City

Rapid transit map of Manhattan and adjacent districts of New York City

Covers Manhattan, South Bronx, and small adjacent parts of Queens, Brooklyn, and Jersey City. Shows subways, connecting mainline railroads, and complete street system. "Copyright, 1908, by Rand, McNally & Co." ... More

Washington hikers, George Grantham Bain Collection

Washington hikers, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows suffragists on bus in New York City, part of the suffrage hike to Washington, D.C. which joined the March 3, 1913 National American Woman Suffrage Association parade. (Source: Flickr Commons Project... More

Raised express track, 9th Ave. "L"

Raised express track, 9th Ave. "L"

Photograph shows the express tracks of the Ninth Avenue El (elevated railroad) with a train, at the 14th Street Station in New York City. The new configuration for express trains was done as part of a system up... More

Subway fire, 1615, George Grantham Bain Collection

Subway fire, 1615, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the aftermath of a fire in a New York City subway tunnel which took place near West 55th Street and Broadway, January 6, 1915. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012 and New York Times, Jan. 7, ... More

Flying Field at Columbus, Ohio. Starting Point of Plane on First Air Rail Trip, New York to Los Angeles, July 8, 1929

Flying Field at Columbus, Ohio. Starting Point of Plane on First Air R...

No. 32417 Public domain photograph of New York, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a street at night. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a street at night. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a woman at a train station. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman at a train station. Office of War I...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Construction

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 559. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Construction

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 566. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Exterior

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 527. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Interior

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

No. 589A. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Sixth Avenue looking north over elevated railway, New York City

Sixth Avenue looking north over elevated railway, New York City

J225878 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 16772.

A black and white photo of some people on some stairs. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of some people on some stairs. Office of War I...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Creek and elevators near foot of Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y

Creek and elevators near foot of Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y

Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-06149, 06148. Left negative has alternative title in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901): Niagara River at Buffalo Water Works intake. Detroit Publ... More

A black and white photo of people walking up stairs. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of people walking up stairs. Office of War Inf...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Control Tower 19, Santa Fe Railway Milepost 51, Dallas, Dallas County, TX

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Control Tower 19, Santa Fe Railway Milepos...

Significance: Control Tower 19 is the best preserved example of three early twentieth century interlocking plants remaining in Dallas and Tarrant Counties. The tower and two one-story sheds are built in the Cr... More

Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York County, NY

Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, 11 South Street, New York, New York C...

Significance: The municipal Ferry pier is the last remaining ferry terminal on the East River and shows the expression of the beaux arts style in structural steel. Survey number: HAER NY-90 Building/structure... More

Main Street Bridge, Main Street East, spanning Genesee River, Rochester, Monroe County, NY

Main Street Bridge, Main Street East, spanning Genesee River, Rocheste...

Significance: The present Main Street Bridge is the fourth bridge to occupy this site since 1812. Main Street is and has been throughout its history the primary commercial and business thoroughfare for the Cit... More

Trans-Lux Theatre, Fourteenth Street between H Street & New York Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Trans-Lux Theatre, Fourteenth Street between H Street & New York Avenu...

Significance: Prior to demolition, was one of Washington's most impressive Art Deco buildings. Originally designed to show shorts and newsreels. Also, one of Washington's first air conditioned public buildings... More

Macombs Dam Bridge, Spanning Harlem River Between 155th Street Viaduct, Jerome Avenue, & East 162nd Street, Bronx, Bronx County, NY

Macombs Dam Bridge, Spanning Harlem River Between 155th Street Viaduct...

Significance: The bridge was designed by eminent structural engineer Alfred Pancoast Boller and was a considerable municipal endeavor as well as a significant engineering feat. It is the third oldest major bri... More

Lincoln Tunnel, Under Hudson River from New Jersey to West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City, New York, New York County, NY

Lincoln Tunnel, Under Hudson River from New Jersey to West Thirty-nint...

Survey number: HAER NY-307 Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-first-Thirty-third Streets, New York, New York County, NY

Pennsylvania Station, 370 Seventh Avenue, West Thirty-first, Thirty-fi...

Significance: The construction of Pennsylvania Station was one part of a large building program undertaken in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Included in this program was the construction of tunnels ... More

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York County, NY

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Boroug...

Significance: A part of the first Subway system constructed in New York City. Survey number: HAER NY-68 Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Building/structure... More

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