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Description: | Corinthian columns, a high coffered ceiling, a skylight, and a chandelier adorn the lavish interior of the National City Bank of New York. The bank was bui... |
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Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. At the start of the war Forrest enlisted as a private but was quickly pro... |
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Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Confederate Lieutenant General Wade Hampton III. Prior to the of the war, he was one of the largest slave owners in t... |
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Description: | Waist-up vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Lieutenant General John Bell Hood. He entered the Confederate army as a colonel and was quickly promoted to ... |
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Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of William H. Seward, Secretary of State under the Lincoln Administration. |
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Description: | Engraved, full-length, seated portrait of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy from 1861-1869. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | View of Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry, with a couple standing in the foreground. The woman is wearing a leopard print coat, and seagulls wheel in ... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Close-up of two protesters on Ecology day at General Motors. The protesters are holding a banner and wearing gas masks. A large office building and a pro... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | A boy looking through a pay binocular stand in Battery Park. Graffiti makes the device seem to smile and young trees grow in the background. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Shelves of souvenirs for sale in Battery Park. The neatly stacked and arranged trinkets include: models of the Empire State Building and the Statue of Libe... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Close-up of the front of a Mack truck, centering on the grille and featuring the Mack bulldog hood ornament. The truck is on West Street parked next to a b... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Two men sit in conversation on a low wall beside a watery expanse of the Hudson River. They are are hunched against the cold and pier pilings form the the... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | A small crowd mills about a cobblestone plaza near a brick building on the wharf adjacent to the Hudson River. The Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship is ... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | A man in a sweater vest, wool pants and eyeglasses sits in the sun on the pier reading. Gently rippling water fill most of the photograph while the foregr... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | A hot dog vendor prepares a hot dog at a stand in Battery park. The cart counter is filled with condiments. A building with a wrap-around window wall is i... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | View of a barber in the West Village taking a nap on the fully reclined shop chair, seen through the shop's front window from the street. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | A worker examines a hanging haunch of meat in the wholesale meat market on Washington Street, while another worker stands in the background. Also in the ro... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | View of the S.S. John W. Brown's hull, lines and foredeck equipment from a dock on the Hudson River. The hull reads, "Food and Maritime High School,... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | A small crowd gathered around a slightly elevated speaker in Washington Square Park. A videographer recording the event is in the foreground, and park tree... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | A woman in a thick black coat with a dog on a leash standing on a sidewalk on West 57th Street. The woman is looking into the distance while the dog tugs o... |
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