New York Panoramas, 1902-1913
New York City, 1900
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Boat Club Parade, Harlem River, 1902
The Curb Market, 1902
The ghetto, 1902
The Mall, Central Park, 1902
Manhattan Beach, 1902
New York skyline, 1902
The Sunday Parade, Fifth Avenue, 1902
The Terrace, Central Park, 1902
Luna Park, 1903
Morris Park Race Track, 1903
Aston House, 1905
Coney Island, 1907
Herald Square, 1907
The Lusitania, 1907
Madison Square, 1907
New York, West Side, Downtown, 1907
New York City, 1908
Grant’s Tomb and Riverside Drive, 1909
Polo Grounds, 1910
Park Row and City Hall Park, 1911
New York from Brooklyn Heights, 1912
Columbus Circus, 1913
New York from Brooklyn, 1913
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May I ask where you found these? They are Wonderful, like many of your finds! Please feel free to post here or DM me on Twitter. Thanks!
Hi Yknot. They are all housed in the Library of Congress.
These are fantastic! BTW, I think “Columbus Circus” should be “Columbus Circle”…?
Amazing collection of photos. thanks for sharing
Hi Chris – would just like to reiterate Yknot’s request in more general terms – could you be persuaded to cite your sources on every post i.e. who holds the images, if it’s images, where (organization and any links), copyright details and (because links die) the precise date you sourced something?
There are, so often, fantastic things to follow up from your site but it can take hours to track some items down. For example, “housed in the Library of Congress” *probably* means to be found in one of the LoC’s enormous online photographic archive, which, to those who know it, *probably* means that the images are available there at hi-res and under a Creative Commons licence. But digging images out of that archive isn’t straightforward: LoC hunts can take ages and the search facilities aren’t always up to the best modern standards.
If you could see your way to adding a short citation paragraph at the bottom of your posts, it would be the final polish on a superb and much-loved site.
Thanks for your comment, James. HTBAR is very deliberately stripped down to provide extremely minimal text information, and adding in the information fields you mention would disrupt that approach. We are always happy to give detailed information to anybody who asks for it.
In this particular instance, the images were sent to us with only the note that they were held by the Library of Congress, hence my comment. To find the images at the Library of Congress site, search for ‘New York panorama’ on the Digital Collections section of the Library of Congress.
I agree with James.
Hello Chris,
I’m very much with the others on the topic of citing sources for your wonderful finds. I appreciate your preference for a clean and simple design, but a lack of sources equals a lack of essential context, to me at least.
Even a brief citation at the end of each post would be most useful. In the example above something as terse as “Source: Digital Collections section of the Library of Congress” would be unobtrusive enough.
Thanks very much for getting back on this Chris – much appreciated, and I do see what you mean about the design implications very much.
Would a “Citations” page, perhaps hidden away beneath “Consulting” and “Privacy Policy”, which would contain, in date/posting order, whatever info you have in your possession about each post, be a possible compromise? That way the detail-fetishists like myself who want to chase off in pursuit can do so, but the integrity of the site’s overall appearance is undisturbed.
Anyway, thanks again -
Thank you, James, for such a thoughtful comment.
The impact of HTBAR comes from its reliance on the power of visual language. Information transfer is much quicker and more complete through visual language than through textual language. In fact, the visual transfer of information is so powerful that it occurs before we are conscious that anything has happened – and therefore we can think nothing has happened. We can often assume that unless textual language is used, no learning has taken place.
This is very noticeable in most museums. Objects are often used as illustrations to large amounts of text, rather than as unmediated three dimensional objects, able to convey all the physical information that they hold. Of course, some text can bring out even more information latent within an object. However, the discipline of only using essential text as a secondary form of information transfer rather than a primary means is rare.
For most people, text is seen as more important than visual information. I take the opposite view, and intentionally reduce the importance of text across HTBAR in comparison to the visual. Adding detailed citations to a post would suggest to people that they ought to read the text, because that is the more important, serious and scholarly information provision. I take the opposite view.
I am also reluctant to add a separate citations page for three reasons: for the reason above – I do not want to suggest that the citations are the more scholarly and serious information; because I often have very minimal information available at all; and because I currently have no additional time at all in which to compile it to any satisfactory level. We expect to permanently increase the number of daily capsules from 3 to 6 very shortly.
I do of course understand that some people may be so interested in specific material as to want to explore further. To that end, we always place a link to the source at the end of each capsule – the ‘Thank you to…’ link. When I first began HTBAR, I only linked to the parent page of the source, rather than the specific child page. This was because I wanted people to keep stay on HTBAR rather than going to other sites. HTBAR’s audience is now strong enough for that not to be a concern, so we will now make sure that each ‘Thank you…’ link goes to the specific source for each capsule, wherever possible.
I am also extremely happy to correspond with anybody seeking more information, if I can possibly help.
Although one might expect to find detailed citations on a conventional history site, HTBAR is not a conventional history site. In fact, I would argue that it is not actually a history site at all. History is about the past, and I agree with William Faulkner:
‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’
Judging by these photos, New York was a much more attractive place in those days. So many more open spaces, and a lot less crowded with far less traffic.
Question: Pond Yachts
in Central park the restaurant has several wonderful framed photographs of pond yachting in the park’s pools. These are farily rare. Any Pond Yacht photos available on the Internet?
WBK
I disagree that: http://www.chrisauman.com/panoramic-pictures-from-new-york-city-and-niagara-falls-2012/