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1930s trifold postcard depicting the then-new Chrysler building on Lexington Avenue 42nd street.

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1925 Playbill for the show “Sunny” at the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street.

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“Somewhere on Broadway” sheet music from around 1910. It depicts Times Square looking south, with the large central building being the Times Tower. Notice the silhouette streetcar going up Broadway and subway entrance kiosk on the right.

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Woolworth building through the Municipal Arch. This view is more or less preserved today, so if you’re ever near City Hall you should check it out.

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Airship docking at the top of the Empire State Building in Manhattan, 1930s

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1913 promotional booklet for the Woolworth building in New York City.

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Crowds at Luna Park in Coney Island bathed in the electric light provided by the millions of bulbs adorning the buildings at the park sometime in the 1900s-1910s

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1930 Playbill from the show “The New Yorkers” in the Broadway Theatre, including a Leyendecker Arrow Collars advertisement.

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World War One song “New York, New York, I Love You” from 1917-1918.

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1927 Life Magazine about the future.

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Well-dressed people disembarking from a ferry docked at a steamboat landing in Coney Island sometime in the 1900s-1910s.

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I've got no future but Oh! What a past!

hello! i use this blog for pretty much everything i like, but my collections of vintage/antique stuff is tagged under voca1ion if you wish to look through it

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Keep Moving March sheet music, 1910s large format.

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1929 Life Magazine about New York City.

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New York Harbor at night with the Statue of Liberty in the distance.

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“The Pace That Kills” postcard