New York circa 1904.
"Ansonia Apartments."
This Beaux-Arts wedding cake, which still stands at Broadway and West 73rd Street,
was last glimpsed Detroit Publishing Company
New York circa 1912.
"Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue at 59th Street."
The original "big box."
New York circa 1900.
"Gillender Building."
This improbably slender tower at the corner
of Nassau and Wall Streets,
one of the tallest buildings in the city
when it was completed in 1897,
met the wrecking ball in 1910
Crowd outside Grand Central Station, returning from summer vacations.
Sept. 8, 1908.
George Grantham Bain Collection.
1910 Irving Underhill photo of the 22-story
Flatiron (Fuller) Building at 175 Fifth Avenue,
one of the earliest (1902) buildings in New York
to attain such heights.
The New York Public Library
as seen from the intersection of East 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.
July 14, 1915.
Copyright Office Collection.
New York circa 1908.
"The Singer Building."
Shortly after its completion.
New York, 1920.
Exchange Court Building at 52 Broadway and Exchange Place.
Photograph by Irving Underhill.
Completed in 1898, the structure was rebuilt with
additional floors and a modern facade in 1980-82.
New York, 1916.
Heckscher Building at 50 East 42nd Street and Madison Avenue.
Irving Underhill photo.
The building, which still stands,
used to have a squash court on the 23rd floor.
Nowadays it's
The original Waldorf-Astoria hotel,
Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, NYC, 1902
The Dewey Arch, Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1900
Fifth Avenue hotels north from 51st Street,
Manhattan NYC circa 1908
Fifth Avenue Stage, New York around 1906
Easter 1911.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
George Grantham Bain Collection.
and the type of carriage (cabriolet).
Hansom cabriolets fitted with taximeters became known as taxicabs.
Note the "curtain" in front of the cab --
to keep the passenger from having to see the horse do what horses do.
"Auto Rides for Crippled Children"
New York. May 25, 1908.
George Grantham Bain Collection
Famous Lost Battalion of the 77th division's Argonne Campaign
of October 1918,march up New York's Fifth Avenue
Celebrazioni per la resa della Germania
Traffic Squad Parade, November 5, 1908.
Mayor George McClellan alighting from auto on the plaza at Union Square.
George Grantham Bain Collection.
"Max" McClellan, New York mayor from 1904 to 1909,
was the son of Civil War general George B. McClellan.
Work Horse Parade obstacle course on Union Square,
New York City. June 13, 1908.
George Grantham Bain Collection.
Borden team,
winner of the obstacle test in the Work Horse Parade on Union Square. June 13, 1908.
George Grantham Bain Collection.
On the left, champion wrestler and vaudeville impresario Ernst Roeber (1861-1944)
and his Manhattan saloon at 499 Sixth Avenue around Easter 1908.
George Grantham Bain Collection.
Roeber (aka Ernest or Ernie) also operated a cafe in the Ridgewood section of Brooklyn.
Another bird's-eye view of Eleventh Avenue, a.k.a "Death Avenue,"
on New York's West Side as captured by the Bain News Service circa 1911.
George Grantham Bain Collection
A detailed circa 1910 Manhattan streetscape
of rail cars at West 26th Street and Eleventh Avenue,
known as "Death Avenue" for the many pedestrians
killed along the New York Central's freight line there.
Removal of the street-level tracks commenced on December 31, 1929.
George Grantham Bain Collection.
Automobile Row:
Broadway at West 55th Street.
Another view of the January 6, 1915, subway fire in New York.
George Grantham Bain Collection
Yonkers, New York
1920s
New York. 57th Street 1916
Mulberry Street.
New York City. 1900
Banana docks, New York
c. 1906
New York, Broad Street, 1900
Lower Manhattan circa 1903.
"Wall Street and Trinity Church, New York."
Detroit Publishing Company.
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 1905.
Cafe Martin, Fifth Avenue and 26th Street, New York City, 1908.
New York City, looking north up Fifth Avenue
toward newly-built Plaza Hotel & Central Park, between
New York circa 1905.
"City Hall Post Office."
Designed by Alfred Mullett, completed in 1880 and demolished in 1939,
the building was derided as "Mullett's Monstrosity" by its numerous critics.
Detroit Publishing Co.
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