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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStunning never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City
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.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134408/Never-seen-photos-100-years-ago-tell-vivid-story-gritty-New-York-City.html#ixzz1symLx1Rv
Uncle Joe
(58,403 posts)Thanks for the thread, snagglepuss.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)Makes me want to go around and take shot of my own neighborhood/City for future generations to view.
marybourg
(12,634 posts)davsand
(13,421 posts)Talk about a window into the past!
Laura
mactime
(202 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts).
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,525 posts)Was anyone else able to get through? I'd love to see more of those.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)She introduced a new song, "God Bless America" (Irving Berlin)
I believe this clip is from "This is the Army" (1943) and includes Ronald Reagan (4'21"
Chipper Chat
(9,686 posts)ty
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Her first husband, in the Army Air Corps, was shot down over Germany during WWII...and killed.
For so many Americans during that time, songs like this one gave them comfort.
Chipper Chat
(9,686 posts)I remember seeing her on TV pushed out in a wheel chair by Milton Berle in the mid 70s. She was very ill and could only mouth the words as an orchestra and chorus played Gob Bless America behind her.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Thanks for posting!
I learned that song on my banjo some 45 years ago.*
I always liked Woodie Guthrie's "So Long..."
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[font size="1"]*Did I say "45 years ago?" Damn...
alfredo
(60,075 posts)marble falls
(57,157 posts)someone who lost her husband in war, who still went on. What made her a pompous ass?
alfredo
(60,075 posts)BTW, Losing a loved one to war doesn't make them a saint. They can still be an asshole.
marble falls
(57,157 posts)and the sacrifice of her husband does speak to her patriotism in how she reacted to the loss. She went on and contributed to the war effort.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)ronnie624
(5,764 posts)Good post.
benld74
(9,909 posts)Due to overwhelming demand, the New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery is experiencing temporary difficulties. Please try again later.
Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)History right before our eyes.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)It is amazing how much different our lives are now than back in those days...
But the gritty street scenes I remember from the 60's going to Down Town Cleveland when it was the 8th largest city in the country and see all the people and all the shops and things you could only get downtown...
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(7,776 posts)I thought that shot looked familiar...
More recent pic...
winstars
(4,220 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Ugh.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)No DUplicitous DUpe
(2,994 posts)Wonderful photography, thanks again!
elleng
(131,073 posts)Dad, now 98 and failing, grew up there, the youngest of 5, so I'm looking for my family!
pink-o
(4,056 posts)Now it's called "Midtown" and wouldn't we love to have Real Estate there???
Too bad my Uncle died before he could see these shots. He would have loved them!
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)I remember in the forties that there weren't many fat people around. They weren't thinner because of starvation. Back then we had fresher and less processed food. Also, fewer people had cars and had to walk a lot.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)New Yorkers also walk a lot.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)While that photo is from 1940 in New York City in 1931, there were 20 known cases of starvation; in 1934, there were 110 deaths caused by hunger. There were so many accounts of people starving in New York that the West African nation of Cameroon sent $3.77 in relief. Access to that which is there to access is now and in the past a major issue in American cities. Just interesting stuff....
PatSeg
(47,567 posts)FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)ananda
(28,873 posts)I also like the ambience of the Atlantic City of Boardwalk Empire, where Lucky Luciano is also a major figure.
RUMMYisFROSTED
(30,749 posts)And the Daily Mail?
2 demerits.
BumRushDaShow
(129,365 posts)1880s -> and on...
http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Home.aspx
It is just remarkable to see these big cities literally growing and constructing and growing and morphing over the past hundred+ years!
Thanks for posting the NYC one! Bookmarked!
emilyg
(22,742 posts)Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)I can look at old pictures forever.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Thanks for cluing us in to these remarkable photos, from a grateful New Yorker. I've forwarded them over to my 90 year-old dad and will look at them with him when he wakes up tomorrow morning.
K&R
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)You won't regret it.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Johnny Noshoes
(1,977 posts)Looks like its grab the camera and head to Manhattan hump day break for me. Sometimes I wonder how many of my digital images will survive me and be around a hundred years from now. I love these old photos of New York - the changes are amazing to see.
vaberella
(24,634 posts)Javaman
(62,532 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)Trying to get to the collection since yesterday, server is overloaded, hope they fix it soon as the photos shown are just tantalizing me!!!
mmonk
(52,589 posts)UTUSN
(70,725 posts)who was one of the top three builders in history, albeit ruthless and arrogant and ruinous to hundreds of thousands he displaced, condemned, evicted, and whose guiding vision wrongly steered the city away from mass transit to individual vehicle transportation -- serving the public that could afford cars, the car and oil companies. The man was horrible, and just about every bridge and expressway and parkway was built by him, including the humongous dam complex at the St Lawrence Seaway (bigger than six pyramids).
Because he discovered a kink in the Constitution that declared Contracts as being inviolable, he set up a power base, through a maze of "public authorities" and State & City agencies, totally out of reach of Governors and Mayors and even the President: Many tried to get rid of him, FDR, LaGuardia, Robert WAGNER, and a slew of reformers, but finally, like, when he was in his 80s making it not-worth-it, it took the ROCKEFELLERs to do it, Nelson and Chase-Manhattan David.
CARO's books (this, and the LBJ) are crammed with niche vignettes of the rest of the cast of hundreds, and here we learn of the heart of Al SMITH, the vacuity of pretty boy John LINDSAY, the towering of hardboiled Nelson ROCKEFELLER, and scores of others. Just recently, Mrs BRADY, Florence HENDERSON, decided to grace us with the information that LINDSAY gave her the crabs. Oh. O.K.
Oh, and that MOSES condemned or otherwise took cheaply the land of others in order to build Lincoln Center, but paid a pretty price to somebodies named Joseph P. KENNEDY, RFK, and 3 KENNEDY sisters. Oh. O.K.
But one of the best things is that FDR's shadow moves through both the MOSES and LBJ bios showing him to be even more monumental than we already knew.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Just tried again and read the same message.
winstars
(4,220 posts)came out I think. I hope they are getting more bandwidth going, although it is a NY city site... so we will see what happens.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)make money from all the hits with the money paying for extra bandwidth.
ornotna
(10,805 posts)But there is hope.
Shorpy has tons of great old photos to view. One of my favorite sites. http://www.shorpy.com/image/tid/245
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)Thanks for posting