Vanderbilt Residences. New York, 1894

Famed residences from New York’s Gilded Age. By the early 1890s, the cluster of Vanderbilt family houses around 51st and 52nd Streets had given this stretch of Fifth Avenue the nickname “Vanderbilt Row.” This photograph looks north along the west side of Fifth Avenue from about 51st Street.  

$5,000

Collection of 5 photographs of City Hall Post Office. New York, 1886-1895

This collection of five photographs shows Alfred B. Mullett’s infamous City Hall Post Office and environs.

$5,000

Collection of 5 photographs of New York City religious establishments. New York, 1880-1901

This collection of five photographs shows three significant houses of worship in late 19th century New York.

$5,000

Collection of 6 photographs of New York City buildings. New York, 1894-1903

This collection of six early photographs shows New York’s iconi c City Hall, City Hall Park, and environs.

$5,000

The Brooklyn Bridge, from the World Building. New York, 1895

Taken from high in the World Building on Park Row, this view looks east across the Manhattan approach and along the full span of the Brooklyn Bridge toward the still-independent city of Brooklyn, whose consolidation with New York would come only in 1898.  

$5,000

Collection of 7 photographs of the Hudson River. New York, 1893

These seven photographs trace the Hudson River from New York Harbor to the Highlands, a journey that in Johnston’s day could be made by steamboat in a long afternoon.

$5,000

Black woman with white child. No place, c. 1870-90

This delightful photograph shows a kind-looking young black woman sitting with a somewhat sour-looking young white child. Both are finely dressed for the occasion, the woman in an elegant dress with lace collar and the child in a dress with an elaborate lace collar. The photographer has highlighted in gold the fine jewelry each wears

$4,500

Grandmaster Flash. 1984. New York, 1984

This portrait captures Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five at the height of their fame. The pioneering group broke through to mainstream success with the 1982 single “The Message,” which made the top 100 pop charts. “’The Message’ was [the first record] to prove that rap could become the inner city’s voice, as well as its choice” (Rolling Stone). In 2007 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five became the first hip hop group to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

In 2012 Rolling Stone declared “The Message” (with the refrain “Don’t push me, ’cause I’m close to the edge, I’m tryin’ not to lose my head …”) the number one hip hop song of all time.

$4,500

Portrait of Walt Whitman holding a butterfly. Philadelphia, [early 1880s?]

A beloved Whitman photograph, framed with a large, bold signature of the poet.

$4,500

View of Rome from the Tiber River with Castel Sant’Angelo and Saint Peter’s Basilica. Rome, ca. 1870

$4,500