NYPL, Historical Postcards of New York City from the Picture Collection at Mid-Manhattan Library

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Introduction
A Record of Time A Record of Place A Record of Art A Record of Style A Record of the People
How to find the postcards
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The Central Libraries > Mid-Manhattan Library > Historical Postcards

A Record of Place: all five boroughs

Scenes from all five boroughs of New York—schools, parks, churches, museums, libraries, office buildings, hovels and mansions—have been selected to tantalize the viewer into venturing to the Picture Collection at Mid-Manhattan Library to scour through thousands of images depicting New York neighborhoods from the arrival of the Dutch in New York harbor to the opening of the Bronx Library Center in 2006. A dip into these images offers a refreshing look at a city surrounded by water.

Bronx
The Lake, Van Cortland Park, N.Y.
Digital ID: 836909

Brooklyn
Scene on the beach, Coney Island, N.Y.
Digital ID: 836501

Manhattan
Bird’s-eye view of Lower New York
Digital ID: 836033

Queens
Broad Channel, L.I., New York
Digital ID: 836925

Staten Island
Willowbrook, S.I., N.Y.
Digital ID: 836983