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Amazing Collection of Old Photos
There are thousands of antique photos freely available for you to use. Our friends at the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the George Eastman House have created Flickr accounts where they've put 'em all. There are literally thousands to check out and, best of all, there are no copyright restrictions — free and clear in the public domain, so use them as you will.
The New York Public Library Collection
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- Chevys and Pontiacs | Buick, 1904-1938 | Chrysler/Dodge Models | Four Decades of Oldsmobiles | G.M. Coach Company | G.M. Truck Company | Construction of the Woolworth Building | Fifth Avenue, New York (1911) | Broadway Street Views (1899) | Civil War Era Photographs and Drawings | Japan/Kimbei Kusakabe | NYPL: Work With Schools | The Great West Illustrated | Cinema 1912-1914 | Changing New York, 1935-1938 | Photographs and Prints of Egypt and Syria | Cyanotypes of British Algae by Anna Atkins | Early Modern Dance: The Denishawn Collection | Ellis Island Photographs | The Statue of Libery Under Construction | NYPL: Research Library | Album of Photographs of Japan | Cinema 1915 | Egypt and Nubia by Beato and Others | Yosemite Views | Farm Security Administration: 1935-1944
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Vue du Nile
The New York Public Library Collections
Yellow Transit Coach — in the low price range
The New York Public Library Collections
36 Passenger super highway coach. Model 719 — heading to Fort Worth, Texas
The New York Public Library Collections
Ruth St. Denis in Radha
Dance occupied a back seat in the theatre of the performing arts in the latter part of the nineteenth century, but it began to come to prominence with the craze for the cakewalk starting in 1896. Loie Fuller's Serpentine Dance of twirling scarves and lights entranced audiences from 1902 and in 1906 Ruth St. Denis presented herself in a full length work Radha.
But it was in the second decade of the twentieth century that dance took center stage. Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn established the Denishawn School in 1915 whose dancers explored the modern repertoire for years to follow.
These selections are from the Denishawn Collection in the Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
The New York Public Library Collections
Vegetable pickers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid, near Homestead, Florida.
Date: February 1939
Depression-era photographs from the Farm Security Administration Collection by Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, Marion Post Wolcott, and others.
The New York Public Library Collections
Cairo: the pyramids
The New York Public Library Collections
Dutch Woman
Identified as a 'Protestant woman from Zuid-Beveland, province of Zeeland, The Netherlands' in Peter Mesenholler 'Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920'.
Date: ca. 1905
Many photographers were drawn to Ellis Island by the general human interest and newsworthiness of the scene; others, such as pioneering social photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), responded to the individual humanity of the immigrants' raw eagerness, symbolized for Hine by their humble possessions and their stoicism.
One amateur photographer, Augustus Sherman, the Ellis Island Chief Registry Clerk, had special access to potential subjects for his camera. It is likely that Sherman's elaborately costumed subjects were detainees, new immigrants held at Ellis Island for one reason or another. While waiting for what they needed to leave the island (an escort, or money, or travel tickets), some of these immigrants may have been persuaded to pose for Sherman's camera, donning their best holiday finery or national dress, which they had brought with them from home. Sherman's pictures were published in National Geographic in 1907 and for decades hung anonymously in the lower Manhattan headquarters of the federal Immigration Service. Incoming correspondence in the William Williams Papers suggests that the Commissioner gave copies of Sherman's haunting photographs to official Ellis Island visitors as mementoes.
The New York Public Library Collections
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