Series III. Manhattan postcard albums
Scope and Contents
Includes the following Manhattan places: Battery, Bowery, Carnegie Hill, Central Harlem, Chelsea, Chinatown, Civic Center, City Hall, Columbus Circle, Cooper Square, East Harlem, East Village, Financial District, Five Points, Flatiron District, Fort George, Garment District, Gramercy Park, Greeley Square, Greenwich Village, Hamilton Heights, Harlem, Hell's Kitchen, Herald Square, Inwood, Kips Bay, Ladies Mile, Lenox Hill, Lincoln Square, Little Italy, Lower East Side, Madison Square, Manhattan Valley, Manhattanville, Meatpacking District, Morningside Heights, Murray Hill, NoHo, NoMad, Rockefeller Center, Rose Hill, SoHo, Stuyvesant Square, Sugar Hill, Theater District, Times Square, Tribeca, Tudor City, Turtle Bay, Union Square, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Washington Heights, West Harlem, West Washington Market, West Village, and Yorkville.
"Manhattan #1"
Scope and Contents
1. Underwood & Underwood Photo Cards
2. Erny's NY Views
3. Italian hand-colored photos
4. Irving Underhill Photos
5. All hold-to-lights
6. Koehler Silks [cards printed on silk]
7. Arthur Livingston
8. Edw. Lowey Color
9. Chas. Flower Tucks [Raphael Tuck & Sons cards signed by artist Charles Flower]
10. Leather cards
11. Embossed
12. Wooden border
13. Adrian RP [real photo postcards]
14. Arthur Jaffe [crossed out]
"Manhattan #2"
Scope and Contents
• Governor's Island
• New York Bay Scenes – Grüße aus [Greetings From]
• Statue of Liberty
• Doelger's Beer Series
• Eclipse Motor Bike Series
• Franz Huld Emblem Series
• Historic Drawing & Kraus Borders
• Battery to St. Pauls Church Views
• [includes reproducing postcards]
"Manhattan #2A"
Scope and Contents
• Battery to Trinity Ch[urch].
• Lower Manhattan Skyscrapers to South Street
"Manhattan #3"
Scope and Contents
• City Hall Area, Post Office, Park Row
• Wanamakers & Downtown Advert. Cards
• Pier Shots & Brooklyn Bridge
• N.Y. Edison Series – Police/Sighs ["Bridge of Sighs," The Tombs]
• Copper Windows [postcards of buildings with copper-tinted windows]/Construction Bldg
• La Salle Instn/ACA [De La Salle Institute/Academy]
• Platinachrome [sic; Plastichromes]
"Manhattan #4"
Scope and Contents
• West Washington Markets
• Cooper Square
• Union Square
• Horn & Hardart [Automats]
• Bellevue & other hospitals
• Washington Irving School
"Manhattan #5B"
Scope and Contents
• Cooper Siegel [sic; Siegel-Cooper] Ladies Mile
• Broadway & Fifth Avenue north from 24th St.
• Flat Iron Building, MSG [Madison Square Garden]
• Greeley Square – Photo Advertising
• Up to 32 40th St and ["40th St and" crossed out] Huyler's Candy Series
• Broadway Restaurants
"Manhattan #5C"
Scope and Contents
• Café Martin – 26th St.
• North to 32nd St.
"Manhattan #6A"
Scope and Contents
• Clothing Advertising
• 34th St. Area – Herald Square
• North to 40th St.
[Manhattan #7]
Scope and Contents
• Columbus Circle --> 97th St.
• West Side
"Manhattan #7A"
Scope and Contents
• 42nd St. and Public Library
• Hudson River Boats
• 5th Ave & Grand Central Palace
• Radio City
• St. Patrick's
• Carnegie Hall
• Broadway Auto Dealers
• Bloomies [Bloomingdale's]
"Manhattan #8A"
Scope and Contents
• Hudson-Fulton 1909 Celebration
• Soldiers & Sailors Monument
• 86th St. to 110th St.
"Manhattan #8B"
Scope and Contents
• 109–110th Sts. – St. John Devine [Cathedral of St. John the Divine]
• Columbia University – Grants Tomb
• Claremont to 122nd St.
"Manhattan #9A"
Scope and Contents
• 122nd Street north to Harlem
• High Bridge
• N. to 153rd St.
"Manhattan #9B"
Scope and Contents
• Washington H[eigh]ts to Inwood
• Polo Grounds & Hilltop Park
• 156th St. Jumel Mansion
• Fort George Amusement Park
• Charles Buck Series
• Inwood
"Manhattan #10"
Scope and Contents
• Open Air Tourist Busses [sic]
• Times Square – 40th St.
• Madison Sq. Garden
• North to 54th St.
• Cross Country Walkers
• Livermore and Knight
• Mechanical Cards
• Horse-drawn Advertising
"#11A. Central Park and Prospect Park" [album also listed under Brooklyn]
Scope and Contents
• Postcards of Central Park, Manhattan, in the front half of an album which also holds postcards of Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
"Manhattan #11B"
Scope and Contents
• Wanamakers
• All Ethnic
• All Ghetto Series
• Jessie Tarbox Beals Series*
• Brandt R.P. [Real Photo] Series
• Greenwich Village Related
*Most of the views produced by Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870–1942) that were originally present in this album were sold before the collection was acquired by the New-York Historical Society. However, a number of her postcards may be found in the Jessie Tarbox Beals Photograph Collection (PR 4).
"Manhattan #12"
Scope and Contents
• N.Y. Subways – Elevated
• Hudson & Manhattan
• Grand Central – Penn Station
• Futuristic Manhattan
• Fire – Equitable Blg. – Chief Series
• Theatres [crossed out]
[Manhattan #13] "Manhattan Private Mailing & Souvenir [Postcards]"
Scope and Contents
1. H.A. Rost PMC [Private Mailing Cards]
2. Rost PMC [Private Mailing Cards] Drawings
3. Lowey Souvenir of NY PMC
4. Lowey Souvenir of NY 1897
5. Arthur Livingston "Greetings" 1897
6. Kreh Souvenir 1897 [C. F. Th. Kreh]
7. Beardsley's Codfish Souvenir
8. Seckel Souvenir
9. Universal PMC [Private Mailing Cards]
10. Hollister Photo 1904
11. Art. Strauss PMC [Private Mailing Cards]
12. Rost 1897
13. American Souvenir 1897
14. Livingston
15. Lowey/Phoenix [Phönix]
"#16. Beautiful People and Beautiful Automobiles"
Scope and Contents
• Clothing and automobile advertising postcards, many of them real photographs, for New York City establishments (mainly in Manhattan).
"Book #17. Hagemeister #1: Manhattan Series"
Scope and Contents
• Monotone and colored view postcards of Manhattan, printed in Germany by the H. Hagemeister Company of New York. (For Hagemeister postcards of the Bronx and Brooklyn, see Box 6.)
[Manhattan] "#18. Manhattan Hotels"
Scope and Contents
• The Bowery north to 42nd St.
[Manhattan] "#19. Manhattan Hotels"
Scope and Contents
• 42nd St. and north to Harlem
"Manhattan #20. Thaddeus Wilkerson Real Photo Postcards"
Scope and Contents
• Postcards photographed and published by Thaddeus Wilkerson (1871-1943) during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Most views are of Manhattan, but a few at the back of the album show scenes in the Bronx and Queens.
[Manhattan #?] "Chinatown" [album also listed under Queens]
Scope and Contents
• Postcards of Chinatown, Manhattan, in the front half of a small album which also holds postcards of Douglaston, Queens.
[Manhattan #?]
Scope and Contents
• West Side
• 93rd St – 109th St
[Manhattan #?]
Scope and Contents
• Upper East Side
• 70th St. to 103rd St.
• Yorkville
"Harlem U.S.A."
Scope and Contents
• Won first place in the Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City's annual album competition, October 10, 2021.
"Theatre"
Scope and Contents
• Postcards of Manhattan theatres and productions.
"The History of Madison Square Garden, 1879–1968: From the Site of the Train Terminal to the 72,000-seat Open Air Stadium in Queens"
Scope and Contents
• Won first place in the Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City's annual competition on October 8, 2022.
"The Business of America is 'Business': Government Postals [and] NYC Advertising, 1870–1950"
Scope and Contents
• Possibly assembled as a competition album.
"Hudson-Manhattan Railroad & Huyler's Series + North Beach Amusement (La Guardia Airport)" [album also listed under Queens]
Scope and Contents
• Hudson & Manhattan Railroad (PATH)
• Huyler's Candy advertisements
• North Beach, Queens, amusement area
• LaGuardia Field