New York City Hall has opened its archives to the general public, now offering some 870,000 photos, maps and various documents on the Internet, retracing 160 years of the city’s history. The success of this new site was such that a few hours after its official launch, it was inaccessible on Wednesday, “because of too much demand”, specified the town hall.
Fans of New York buildings and bridges will be delighted. Among the twenty-five collections available, one includes the color photo of each of the New York buildings, taken in the 1980s. A second brings together a selection of over 15,000 photos taken by photographer Eugene de Salignac at the beginning of the XXe century, used by the bridge service from 1906 to 1934 to immortalize the bridges, roads and constructions in progress at the time.
DRAWINGS OF CENTRAL PARK
Also available are some 1,300 black and white photos from the time of the Great Depression, a variety of drawings of Central Park, some criminal case photos taken by the police, thousands of snapshots of everyday life in New York City. through the ages, maps, audio documents, letters …
The oldest photograph in these digital archives dates from 1858. These archives will be the honey of researchers and historians, and the happiness of many lovers of the city, who can share them on social networks and order paper versions in different formats, directly on the site. They are even delivered internationally.
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