| Skyscrapers of New York |
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OSU Special Collections & Archives
Image Title: Skyscrapers of New York
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This picture shows the lower end of Manhattan Island. This is the business and financial center of New York city, and the office building are commonly known as skyscrapers because they are so high. The water front here is lined with long piers which jut out into the river. Between them are the deep-water docks which receive the largest ocean lines. The city of New York has the largest population of all the cities in the world except Greater London and outranks all others in export and import trade. its excellent harbor affords a port for the largest vessels. Raw materials may be brought from all parts of the world to this center and manufactured goods may easily be shipped to all parts of the world. This location on the seashore, therefore, is one of the most desirable places in the United States for a city. In addition, New York has the advantage of being at the mouth of an important river. Northward from New York is the busy highway of travel through the valley of the Hudson, and equally important is the valley of the Mohawk, leading westward from Albany. By the Hudson-Mohawk supplies of raw material for manufacture, and great quantities of food, are brought form the rich agricultural lands of the interior.
During the French and Indian War and the American Revolution the valley of the Hudson was a center of great struggle, for its possession by an enemy meant the separation of the only two thickly settled districts of America and the isolation of new England.
In addition to its commercial advantages, New York is but a short distance from a large supply of fuel. From the Appalachian fields coal and oil are quickly and easily brought to the city for use in the large factories.
The leading industries in New York are the manufacture of clothing and machinery, printing and book-making, meat-packing, and the refining of sugar. New York has become the leading financial center of the world. There are many banks and insurance companies with large capital, and most of the great industrial houses of America have offices in the city.
The borough of Brooklyn developed as a large independent city across the river from New York City, but it has now become a part of the metropolis. It is an important center for the refining of sugar and the roasting and grinding of coffee and spices. Eastward from Brooklyn and northward along the banks of the Hudson River are chains of suburban towns where many of the people live who work each day in the metropolis.
To the west, across the Hudson River, are Hobo-ken, Jersey City, and Newark. These three cities are in New Jersey, but they have many of the same great geographic advantages that New York City has.
In addition to the busy industrial and commercial life of the city, New York is one of the leading educational and musical centers of this country, and it is fortunate in having wonderful collections of natural history and of art."
Original Format: Lantern slides
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides
Item Number: P217:set 051 030
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| New Year Greeting Card |
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Center for Jewish History, NYC
Description: New Year greeting card
Object origin: Saxony [Germany?]
Creator/Photographer: Williamsburg Art Company, New York
Medium: colored photographic postcard
Date: circa 1910/1915
Persistent URL: museums.cjh.org/Display.php?irn=9642
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
Accession number: 1992.173
Rights Information: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights. For more copyright information, click here. |
| Work with schools, Bronx Traveling Library : people using bo... |
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New York Public Library
Digital ID: 434283. Work with schools, Bronx Traveling Library : people using bookmobile, 1938.. 1938
Source: New York Public Library Visual Materials / Lantern Slides / Branch Libraries / Extension Division / Public schools and Work with schools (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.
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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?434283
Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here) |
| Girls in classroom, Traveling Library at Public School Playg... |
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New York Public Library
Digital ID: 434250. Girls in classroom, Traveling Library at Public School Playground, July 1910.. Hine, Lewis Wickes -- Photographer. 1910
Source: New York Public Library Visual Materials / Lantern Slides / Branch Libraries / Extension Division / Public schools and Work with schools (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.
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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?434250
Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here) |
| Ready for travel and going north, south and west. Immigrants... |
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New York Public Library
Digital ID: 416753. Ready for travel and going north, south and west. Immigrants with baggage lined up at teller's windows marked money exchange.. Levick, Edwin -- Photographer. 1902-1913
Notes: No. 7465.
Source: Photographs of Ellis Island, 1902-1913. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?416753
Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here) |
| Travelling tin shop, Brooklyn. |
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New York Public Library
Digital ID: 482697. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. May 22, 1936
Notes: Code: III.B.5. Exhibited: Modern Vision #75 Tinker looks over his shoulder at camera while he ties box to wagon already loaded with pans, brushes, basins, etc.
Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?482697
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| Travelling on the Erie Canal. |
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New York Public Library
Digital ID: 54443. Maverick, Peter -- Engraver. [1826]
Notes: Print inserted as extra-illustration.
Source: Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common council of the city of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?54443
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| Filling balloon on Wanamaker's (LOC) |
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The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Filling balloon on Wanamaker's
[1911 July 8]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows men inflating a hydrogen balloon, "Wanamaker no. 1," on the roof of the John Wanamaker store, Broadway and Tenth Ave., New York City, to travel to Philadelphia. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009, and New York Times archive, July 9, 1911.)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09821
Call Number: LC-B2- 2302-2
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