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Images of the Past New York City History #9

Picture #48

An Old Tavern Sign
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of Old New York edited by Henry Collins Brown 1923

Picture #49

The beautiful Harlem river, 1864. The famous Macomb's Dam bridge, built in 1861.
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of Old New York edited by Henry Collins Brown 1923

Picture # 50
Ninth Avenue elevated railroad train, at Ninth (now Columbus) avenue and Fifty-ninth street, 1876. At that time the conductor collected a fare of ten cents from each passenger, and the engines all had special names.
Picture Credit: Valentine's Manual of Old New York edited by Henry Collins Brown 1923

Picture #51

By 1867 there were hundreds of New Yorkers who took the boat to this excellent beach at Coney Island.
Picture Credit: Adventures of America 1857-1900: A Pictorial Record From Harper's Weekly by John A Kouwenhoven; Harper & Brothers Publishers (1938)

Picture #52
One of the most interesting achievements to the post Civil War era in the early eighties, was the electric locomotive. The rails were electrified, the engine picking up the current through its wheels.
Picture Credit: Adventures of America 1857-1900: A Pictorial Record From Harper's Weekly by John A Kouwenhoven; Harper & Brothers Publishers (1938)

Picture #53
In the above picture we look east along Forty-second Street to the Sixth Avenue elevated station, the same structure which is now (1938) about to be demolished.
Picture Credit: Adventures of America 1857-1900: A Pictorial Record From Harper's Weekly by John A Kouwenhoven; Harper & Brothers Publishers (1938)

Picture #54

A scene at the Stock Exchange
Picture Credit: Adventures of America 1857-1900: A Pictorial Record From Harper's Weekly by John A Kouwenhoven; Harper & Brothers Publishers (1938)
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