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Series I: Photograph
Series II: Printed and Reference Material
Series III: Stereoscopic Views
Series IV: Other Media

The Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Photograph and Lithograph collection, bulk 1850-1980

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Series II: Printed and Reference Material


Box 37 Albums, Newspaper illustrations

69 pages (AccNo. 2011.003)


Box 42 Folder 9 Architect's Drawings, The New Union League Club House

1 print


Box 39 Folder 14 Barnum's Museum, 1853

1 print


Box 39 Folder 34 Battery & Castle Garden

2 print (2010.31)


Box 39 Folder 5 Battle of Gettysburg

6 images-Duryea Photo (2010.107)


Box 39 Folder 23 Battle Pass

1 print (2011.20)


Box 40 Folder 5 Battleground "No Man's Land", Battle of the Somme: Courcelette France, Sept, 1916

1 photograph (2009.1.0002)


Box 39 Folder 39 Bay of New York

1 print (2010.16)


Box 39 Folder 48 Bay of New York, 1854

1 print (2010.06)


Box 39 Folder 16 Bay of New York, 1838

1 print


Box 39 Folder 18 Bldgs, Residences, Agriculture

11 prints (2011.33)


Box 39 Folder 31 Broadway New York, 1836

3 prints (2010.40, 2010.41)


Box 36.1 Folder 24 Brooklyn Streets

28 tear sheets


Box 42 Folder 4 Buildings and Street Views (Harpers Weekly), 1870-1885

21 clippings


Box 36.1 Folder 21 Buildings, Museums, Libraries

6 prints (2011.36)


Box 41 Central Park

20 slides (Bruce Davidson)


Box 41 Chrysler Building

3 photographs


Box 36.1 Folder 18 Colonial New York- Misc.

22 prints


Box 39 Folder 10 Crystal Palace

3 prints


Box 39 Folder 11 Custom House, 1799-1815

1 print


Box 39 Folder 37 Elevated train

1 print (2010.21)


Box 42 Folder 8 Events and Street views (Harpers Weekly), 1859-1860

8 prints : (Great Strike of Street-Railway, Fireworks from Brooklyn Heights, Grand Ball at the Academy of Music, Broadway Dedicated, Evacuation day, Metropolitan Sanitary Fair, Inauguration of President Grant)


Box 42 Folder 12 Events and Street views (Harpers Weekly), 1868-1887

8 prints : (Dock improvements, Tammy Hall, East River, Grand Procession of Wide-a wakes, Ball to Japanese Embassy, Centennial Celebration, West Street)


Box 39 Folder 24 Execution of Goff Ye Negar

1 print (2010.106)


Box 36.1 Folder 15 Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street

1 print


Box 39 Folder 21 Fire at Barnum's, 1865

1 print (2011.32)


Box 39 Folder 36 Five Points in 1859

3 prints (2010.24)


Box 42 Folder 1 Fortune NYC Map, 1939

1 fold-out map


Box 42 Folder 13 Genins New Bridge, 1852

1 print


Box 39 Folder 19 Government Bldgs, Financial District

8 prints (2011.32)


Box 39 Folder 43 Gowanus Road, Brooklyn, 1750

1 print (2010.12)


Box 39 Folder 8 Gray bar bldg, Grand Central Terminal

2 prints


Box 39 Folder 9 Harbors

4 prints


Box 36.1 Folder 25 Houses of Worship

17 prints


Box 42 Folder 3 Illustrated London, 1907

5 clippings


Box 42 Folder 5 Labor/Industry, Late 1800s

50+ clippings : (Steinway & sons, Flour mills, Laying of concrete pavements, New York Daily interior, Sewing rooms, Factory Life, Street Sweeping)


Box 39 Folder 15 Landing of Hendrick Hudson, 1609

1 print


Box 39 Folder 41 Le Etats -Unis-Vue de New York

1 print (2010.14)


Box 39 Folder 38 Long Island- Boston Harbor

1 print (2010.20)


Box 39 Folder 22 Merchants Exchange

1 print (2010.100)


Box 39 Folder 2 New York

21 prints (Valentines)


Box 39 Folder 17 New York

10 prints : (Statue of Liberty Sullivan's Defeat)


Box 39 Folder 26 New York

2 prints (2010.82)


Box 39 Folder 30 New York, 1794-1836

8 prints (2010.44)


Box 39 Folder 33 New York

1 print (2010.36)


Box 39 Folder 50 New York, 1815

1 print (2010.01)


Box 40 Folder 3 New York

7 prints : (Old New York, Crystal Palace, Sandy Hook, Turtle Bay, New York Society Library)


Box 39 Folder 46 New York (view from Weehawken), 1854

1 print (2010.08)


Box 36.1 Folder 19 New York 1903 Etchings

12 prints (2011.39)


Box 36.1 Folder 17 New York in 1776

13 prints


Box 42 Folder 7 New York Public Library (Harper's Weekly), 1897

1 print


Box 39 Folder 7 New York Street Scene, 1900

1 print


Box 36.1 Folder 22 New York, 19th Century

5 prints


Box 39 Folder 28 Niewu Nederlandt, 1635/1826

1 print (2010.71)


Box 39 Folder 49 Overlooking Bay

1 print (2010.03)


Box 39 Folder 42 Palisade Rocks on the Hudson River, 1820

1 print (2010.13)


Box 39 Folder 32 Pershing Square

1 print (2010.37)


Box 39 Folder 27 Playbill and article, 1989

2 items (2010.81)


Box 36.1 Folder 16 Prospect Park, Brooklyn

1 print


Box 39 Folder 12 Ruins of the Merchants Exchange, 1835

1 print


Box 39 Folder 44 Rutgers Mansion, 1776

1 print (2010.11)


Box 38 Scrapbooks - Valentine's Manuals, theatrical scrapbooks and autograph albums, Jacob Levy Scrapbook

(AccNo. 2011.003, 004, 005, 006)


Box 39 Folder 35 Site of Second National Bank, 1852

3 prints (2010.26)


Box 42 Folder 11 Skyline and East River, 1891

2 prints


Box 39 Folder 45 South view of Oswego, 1760/1829

1 print (2010.10)


Box 39 Folder 40 Southeast view of NY

1 print (2010.15)


Box 39 Folder 29 Spuyten Duyvil Creek

1 print (2010.47)


Box 42 Folder 10 Street views (Harpers Weekly), 1859-1871

8 prints : (Fulton Market, New Church Fifth Ave., Brooklyn w/ Bridge, New York from a Balloon, Buffalo and its Environs)


Box 36.1 Folder 23 Streets

5 tear sheets


Box 39 Folder 13 The Park Fountain

1 print


Box 36.1 Folder 20 Theatre Prints

12 prints


Box 39 Folder 20 Theatres, Fires

2 prints (2011.024)


Box 41 Times Square, Billboard and model, sign for White Rose Tea

1 photograph


Box 41 Times Square, Billboard for Buitoni Restaurant

1 photograph


Box 41 Times Square, Billboard for Camel on Hotel Claridge

1 photograph


Box 41 Times Square, Billboard for Eveready Batteries

1 photograph


Box 41 Times Square, Billboard for Hennessy cognac, Hygrade's All Beef Frankfurters

1 photograph


Box 41 Times Square, Billboard for White Rose Tea, Hygrade's All Beef Frankfurters

1 photograph


Box 41 Times Square, Billboard of Playland and GE

1 photograph


Box 41 Times Square, Comic Clipplings

1 print


Box 41 Times Square, Manhattan Sales Division Maps

3 prints


Box 41 Folder 1 Times Square, Newspaper clippings

4 clippings


Box 41 Times Square, Nightscape w/ Pepsi sign and Astor sign

1 photograph


Box 41 Folder 1 Times Square, Photographs

14 photographs


Box 41 Folder 2 Times Square, Photographs

6 photographs


Box 41 Times Square, print

1 print


Box 41 Folder 3 Times Square, surrounding areas

21 photographs : (R.R. Stations, Times Square 1912, 5th and 42nd, Manhattan Storage, 5th and 42nd, Hotel Kinckerbocker 1907, Belmont Hotel, Vanderbilt Ave.)


Box 39 Folder 25 US Branch Bank and NY Exchange

1 print (2010.99)


Box 37 Valentine's Manuals Album

150 pages (AccNo. 2011.003)


Box 36 Folder 1 Valentine's Views, 35 St. and Above

9 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 5 Valentine's Views, Asylums-Institutions-Almshouse-Social Services

86 pages-prints and text (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 6 Valentine's Views, Bridges

17 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 3 Valentine's Views, Broadway & Avenues

40 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 11 Valentine's Views, Brooklyn's First Fire-Engine

1 print (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 1 Valentine's Views, Central Park

17 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 12 Valentine's Views, Churches/Temples

36 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 3 Valentine's Views, Five Points Mission

1 print (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 7 Valentine's Views, Hotels

8 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 7 Valentine's Views, Houses, Mansions/Historical Homes

82 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 8 Valentine's Views, Infrastructures- Transportation, Reservoirs

8 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 16 Valentine's Views, Islands

1 print (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 10 Valentine's Views, Lith. W.C. Rogers & Co. - Chamber of the Board

3 print (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 6 Valentine's Views, Markets, Manufacturing, Coffee Houses, Taverns

54 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 9 Valentine's Views, Mielatz- Houses, Bridges

14 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 15 Valentine's Views, Military Forts

15 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 14 Valentine's Views, Misc.

6 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 10 Valentine's Views, Museums-Monuments, Ellis Island

12 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 13 Valentine's Views, Outer Boroughs & Other Than NYC

8 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 8 Valentine's Views, Park Row, Lower Manhattan, Five Points

55 pages- prints and text (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 2 Valentine's Views, Parks & Squares

11 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 12 Valentine's Views, Portraits

38 pages- prints and text (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 14 Valentine's Views, Public Buildings, Govt & Political Bldgs

34 pages- prtins and text (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 5 Valentine's Views, Schools, Hospitals, Infirmaries

59 pages- prints and text (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 9 Valentine's Views, Ships & Water Views/Harbor

30 pages- prints and text (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 4 Valentine's Views, Streets 34 & Below

28 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 13 Valentine's Views, Theatres & Gardens

26 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 11 Valentine's Views, Tiffany's -37th & Fifth

2 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36.1 Folder 4 Valentine's Views, Views

22 prints (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 2 Valentine's Views, Wall Street & Financial District

29 pages-prints and text (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 17 Valentine's Views, William Bishops Manual

1 print (AccNo. 2011.002)


Box 36 Folder 18 Valentine's woodcuts and etchings

48 print (2011.017) : (Houses, Theatres, Churches, etc.)


Box 42 Folder 6 Vendors/Retail/Market, articles and etchings, Late 1800s

Over 50 clippings


Box 39 Folder 47 View from Gowanus Heights, 1839

1 print (2010.07)


Box 39 Folder 4 Views of New York, 1786, 1820

2 prints


Box 42 Folder 2 VLS Newspaper, 1983

1 item


Box 35 Wittman New York Albums, Broome St not Finan dist.

23 prints


Box 35 Wittman New York Albums, Photographic Album, c. 1908

28 prints


Box 35 Wittman New York Albums, Photographic Album

53 prints


Box 35 Wittman New York Albums, Photographic Album, c. 1908

25 prints


Box 35 Wittman New York Albums, photographic Album

73 prints


Box 35 Wittman New York Albums, Scrapbook style collection of b/w photographs of the City, c. 1913

25 prints