Collection of 7 photographs of New York City cityscapes. New York, 1890s-1900s

This collection of seven photographs shows incredible views of the New York cityscape.

$5,500

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

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

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

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

Manhattan Life Building, N.Y.. New York, 1895

The dominant structure in this view is the Manhattan Life Insurance Building at 64–66 Broadway, designed by Francis H. Kimball and George Kramer Thompson and completed in 1894. Rising 348 feet to the top of its lantern, it was the tallest building in New York when this photograph was taken.

$5,000

Coney Island Panorama. Brooklyn, 1907

This is a splendid panorama of Coney Island taken in 1907.

$4,500

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