Life in Old New York 24 Cards

Vintage views of the great metropolis when a shave and a haircut cost 30 cents and horse-drawn carriages dominated the Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue. Images include ice skaters in Central Park, ladies at a liberated saloon, strollers on the Brooklyn Bridge, patrons in an automat, Coney Island, Chinatown, many more. Introduction, Notes.

Horn and Hardart Automat, 1930s
Skating in Central Park, ca.1888
14th Street horsecar, ca. 1895
Blossom Restaraunt, the Bowery, 1935
Washington Square Park fountain, ca. 1948
Mulberry Street, ca. 1900
Barrel-organ player, ca. 1910
Crossing the street, ca. 1899
Steerage deck, S.S. Pennland, 1893
Women at a bar, ca. 1910
Women's car, ca. 1910
El station, 1936
Herald Square, 1899
Tourists, ca. 1910
Copyists, Metropolitan Musuem of Art, ca. 1900
Surf Avenue, Coney Island, 1912
A New York baseball team, ca. 1900
Lenox Avenue, 1938
Albert Einstein at City Hall, 1921
Pell Street, Chinatown, ca. 1900
Hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty, 1877
South Street, ca. 1890
Brooklyn Bridge, ca. 1900
Easter Parade, 1902