Landmarks

STATUE OF LIBERTY

The hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty being built in a Paris studio around 1876...

It took a total of 9 years to complete the Statue of Liberty. The statue was built completely in France before it was disassembled, shipped to the US and rebuilt on American soil.

 St. Patricks Cathedral

 NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE

During World War II, Katz’s Deli on the Lower East Side became famous for its slogan, “Send a salami to your boy in the army.” This would be Real Food for soldiers stuck with C-rations. The line was immortalized in the 1952 film At War with the Army, by Jerry Lewis.

 

1933: Rockefeller Center at Christmas

COTTON CLUB

 

South Street

Ships moored on the East River at South Street, Manhattan, New York City, circa 1890.

All dressed up on Easter Day - Fifth Avenue with the NYPL lion on the left, New York City, 1913

 ORCHARD STREET - NYC

 CHICAGO

 Yankee Stadium--1951

Carpenters, printers, sign painters, jobbers…just the kind of workers who kept New York City growing in the mid-1800s when this picture was taken somewhere in lower Manhattan.

 

SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 

NIAGRA FALLS

ALCATRAZ

BIG BEN - LONDON