12714.
View in a Conservatory, Fifth Avenue, NY. This is one of Richard K. Haight’s houses on 5th Ave., converted to a club house. Haight was the proprietor of the St. Nicholas Hotel and he was lost on the sinking of the Steamer Pacific in 1856.
New York City
12715.
169. View in a Conservatory, Fifth Avenue, NY. This is one of Richard K. Haight’s houses on 5th Ave., converted to a club house. Haight was the proprietor of the St. Nicholas Hotel and he was lost on the sinking of the Steamer Pacific in 1856.
12716.
165. Conservatory View, N.Y., The Three Graces. This is one of Richard K. Haight’s houses on 5th Ave., converted to a club house. Haight was the proprietor of the St. Nicholas Hotel and he was lost on the sinking of the Steamer Pacific in 1856.
12717.
171. Conservatory View , Fifth Avenue, NY. This is one of Richard K. Haight’s houses on 5th Ave., converted to a club house. Haight was the proprietor of the St. Nicholas Hotel and he was lost on the sinking of the Steamer Pacific in 1856.
12718.
Harlem River, from High Bridge, N.Y.
12719.
2707. The Museum.
12720.
View on Madison Ave., NY.
12721.
1387. Burling slip, Looking North, New York.
12722.
1400. Ship News Office at the Battery.
12723.
1389. Tombs.
12724.
Wall Street, New York.
12725.
Interior of Mayor Wood’s Country Resdence.
12726.
Views of Staten Island. No. 5. From the Sailors’ Retreat, Stapleton, looking towards New York.
12727.
Views of Staten Island. No. 6. Quarantine Landing, Tompkinsville. 1799 saw the creation of a quarantine station for immigrants with yellow fever and smallpox. It was authorized to move from Bedloe (now Liberty) Island to Tompkinsville. Elizabeth Bayley Seton, the first American Roman Catholic Saint, assists her father, the New York City Health Officer, Dr. Richard Bayley. On September 1, 1858, fearing the spread of contagious disease a mob of Staten Islanders burn the Quarantine Hospital in Tompkinsville. The hospital served immigrants to the US who were thought to be too ill to enter the country. In 1870, Swinburne Island, a man-made island off of South Beach, is constructed as a Quarantine hospital for immigrants arriving in America with contagious diseases. It replaces the quarantine ships which had housed the sick immigrants since the burning of the Tompkinsville Quarantine Station in 1858. Originally named Dix Island, after a former New York Governor, the name was soon changed to Swinburne after the Civil War hero and surgeon who headed the development of the Island: John S. Swinburne. In 1873, Hoffman Island, a second man-made Quarantine Island, is completed off the shore of South Beach. Conditions on both quarantine islands were often overcrowded and unsanitary. In 1901 7,801 people were detained on Hoffman Island. Use of the hospitals declined until they were finally closed in the 1920s. From 1931 to 1937 the island was used as a bird quarantine station for imported parrots. The island is named for John T. Hoffman, a former New York City Mayor and New York State Governor.
12728.
No. 171. Tammany Hall.
12729.
Scene on Broadway near 13th St., New York. In front of Wallack’s Theater.
12730.
Street View in New-York. Broadway, Below Grace Church.
12731.
Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. Fort Wadsworth is a former US military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into Upper and Lower halves, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay and Manhattan beyond. Prior to closing in 1994 it claimed to be the longest continually garrisoned military installation in the US. It comprises several fortifications, including Fort Tompkins and Battery Weed and was given its present name in 1865 to honor Brigadier General James Wadsworth, who had been killed in the Battle of the Wilderness during the Civil War.
12732.
East River from Brooklyn.
12733.
East River from Brooklyn.
12734.
View from Brooklyn Heights.
12735.
Road Side Hotel, Long Island. “Reedy’s Hotel” on sign. There is a Reedy Island in Suffolk County so this may be outside of the NYC area.
12736.
Union Square, NY.
12737.
No. 295. Building the New Post Office.
12738.
Union Square.
12739.
No. 291. South Street.
12740.
No. 308. City Hall Park, Brooklyn.
12741.
No. 271. Fulton Market.
12742.
View on West Street, New York.
12743.
No. 3. Bowling Green. On the Arrival of the Prince of Wales in New York.
12744.
Stock Exchange, Broad Street, NY.
12745.
Schooner Brig and Ocean Steamer. Foot of Chambers Street, New York.
12746.
On board of the frigate Re Galantuomo.
12747.
Interior of the Main Saloon of the Steamer Commonwealth.
12748.
No. 175. Interior View Saloon of American Steamer. This is the Steamer Commonwealth.
12749.
Dry Dock, Brooklyn. Ship North Caroline in background.
12750.
NY harbor scene. A canal boat can be seen at center. Such boats wintered in Coenties Slip which is likely the site of this view.
12751.
Fort Tompkins, New York Harbor. Fort Tompkins is a fort on Staten Island in New York City, within what is now Fort Wadsworth at the Narrows. Fort Tompkins (and its predecessor of the same name) guarded the landward approaches to other forts in the area from 1808 through circa 1898. The current fort was built 1847-1861, and was operational as a fort until superseded by new defenses circa 1898. It is now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. It is the last remaining of four forts in New York State named Fort Tompkins.
12752.
High Bridge boat Sugar Lily.
12753.
View on North River, NYC.
12754.
1404. Shipping Scene.
12755.
457. Fulton Ferry, N.Y. from Brooklyn.
12756.
457. Fulton Ferry, N.Y. from Brooklyn.
12757.
456. Governor’s Island, from Brooklyn, N.Y.
12758.
Shipping, New York. The vessel is the “Manchester.”
12759.
Harlem River, East Shore, just below High Bridge. The label on verso indicates that this view was “Photographed by Chas. Wager Hull, Amateur, N.Y. And sold for the Benefit of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Metropolitan Fair, April, 1864.”
12760.
New York. As viewed from Brooklyn-Atlantic Street.
12761.
View from Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn.
12762.
Sailing vessel in NY harbor.
12764.
Astoria.