Imagery: NYPL Digital Gallery Featured Collection: Streetscape and Townscape of Metropolitan New York City, 1860-1942

Streetscape and Townscape of Metropolitan New York City, 1860-1942 is the July featured collection or “curator’s choice” from the NYPL Digital Gallery.

This month’s featured collection guide presents over 500 prints and photographs offering the complete content of a wide range of selected image collections and illustrated monographs: Hudson River mansions, including Washington Irving’s home and vicinity in the 1860s; street views by Alice Austen from 1896; a panorama of Fifth Avenue from 1911, and more.