“New York, View From South, Man-of-war at Left,” 1793, via NYPL Digital Collections
The 18th-century Yellow Fever pandemic that led to NYC’s first Health Department
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“New York, View From South, Man-of-war at Left,” 1793, via NYPL Digital Collections
Photo of White Horse Tavern (bottom left) courtesy of Wikimedia; Photo of the Merchant’s House Museum (bottom right) courtesy of Village Preservation on Flickr
Sea Breeze Hospital in Coney Island via Library of Congress
Street View of 70 Fifth Avenue, Map data © 2020 Google; Photo of W.E.B. DuBois in 1918 from Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons
All photos taken by James and Karla Murray exclusively for 6sqft
Lexington Avenue, between 105th and 106th Streets, Manhattan, 1913. Photograph by Pierre P. Pullis, Lundin Collection, Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum
Painting of George Washington: Rembrandt Peale, George Washington (1732–1799), 1853, Oil on canvas; New-York Historical Society, Bequest of Caroline Phelps Stokes
The Times Square shuttle platform, Photo by Helvetica Fanatic on Wikimedia
Exterior photo via Wikimedia; Photo of bell tower © 6sqft
Streetview of 14-16 Fifth Avenue, Map data © 2020 Google; Painting of Henry Breevort via public domain, Photo of General Daniel Edgar Sickles courtesy of the Library of Congress, and photo of Celeste Holm via public domain
Image by Skeez via Pixabay cc
Tin Pan Alley buildings; Photo by Eden, Janine and Jim on Flickr
From top left: Photo of Robert Frost via Wikimedia, Photo of Emily Post via Library of Congress, Photo of Henry Miller via Wikimedia; From bottom left: Photo of James Baldwin by Allan Warren via Wikimedia, Photo of Patricia Highsmith via Wikimedia, and Photo of Margaret Mead via Smithsonian Institution Archives Wikimedia
Christmas shoppers on 6th Avenue (1910) via Library of Congress