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i Greater New York

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OVER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF THE FOREMOST CITY OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

1905 . RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.

Chicago and New York. Copyright, 1897, by Rand, McNally & Co. Copyright, 1899, by Rand, McXally & Co. Copyright, igoi, by Rand, McNally & Co. Copyright, 1902, by Rand, McNally & Co. Copyright, 1904, by Rand, McNally & Co.

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TABLE {)V CONTENTS

I 'AGE p.\(;e PACE American Museum of Natural History .... 195 Fort Schuyler 30 Produce Exchange ... 29

American Surety Co.'s Building 5Q Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island 19 Prospect Park, Brooklyn . . 249

Astor, Mrs. John lacili, Residence of . . . .171 Gansevoort Market 117 Raf)id Transit Tunnel 103 Battery Park and'W w V. .rk Bay, from Roof of Gould's. Geo., Residence 197 Residences Northeast Corner Madison Avenue Washington Buildiut,' o JO Grace Church .... .107 and Fiftieth Street 16;; Blackwell's Island, Soutli Knd .i7 Grand Central Station 151 Riverside Drive and Grant's Tomb 219 Bowery, The 1 Grant's Tomb, Riverside Drive 221 Riverside Drive, Looking North from Grant's Bowling Green Buildiny 47 Hale, Nathan, Statue of 89 Tomb 21S Bridges, Pr..-;|KCt Park, BP".kl\ti 247 Hall of Architectural Casts, Metropolitan Riverside Drive. Looking North from One Hun- Brighton Bcacli, C-iux IMaml 2<;i Museum of Art 189 dred and Twelfth Street 211

Broad Street, I,^..ikin;; S.nuli It^hii Wall Street . 71 Hall of Records 91 Riverside Drive, Looking North from One Hun-

Lfiiikmg . . . Broad Street, Nwrtli fr.nn Beaver 40 Herald S<|uare 143 , dred and Twentieth Street 213

Broadway, Looking North from Murray Street . oS High Bridge 233 Riverside Drive and One Hundred and Eighth

Broadwav and Bond Street to Tenth Street . . 105 Holland House 145 Street 207

Brnadwav, Looking North from Post Office . . S3 Hotel Waldorf-Astoria 147 Salvation Army Building 119

Broad\va\' and I'ilth Avenue, Junction of . . .137 Hotel Majestic Sectional Dry 199 Dock and Brooklyn Navy Yard . 3s

from to . Hotel Margaret. Singer '75 Broad\va\' Tenth Street Union Scjuare log Columbia Heights, Brooklvn . 2?7 Building Looking Broadwav, North from E.xchange Place Si Hotel New Netherland . i73 Sixth Avenue, Looking North from Fourteenth S,i\oy Br.">klyn Bridge 2.^% Hotel 173 Street Station of Elevated Railroad . . .121 Brooklyn, Fulton and Court Streets 241 Huntington, CoUis P., Residence of 171 Society of American Artists 163 Brooklyn Savings Bank 243 Judson .\Ieinorial Baptist Church 113 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument 217 Knickerbocker 'I lu .iti r Sound Steamer Casino 14Q Lea ving North . 149 River Pier . 33 oi William, Governor's Island, New York Liberty, Statue , I'mut View, from . South Street, Castle Southeast 23 Looking South from Coenties Slip . 43 Bay 19 Liberty, Statue of. Side View, from West ... 25 South Street. Scenes on 45

i2g Life Building St. Bartholoniew's . Calvary Church 139 Parish House ... . 155 i.Si Looking Southwest from Francis . . Central Park, East Drive New York and Brook- St. Xavier Church, Interior of . 12S Central Park, Fountain and Lake nSj lyn Bridge 13 St. James Building 133 Central Park, View of 183 Looking South from New York and Brooklyn St. Luke's Hospital 225 Century Club 163 Bridge 15 St. Patrick's Cathedral ... 157 Church and Library, Sailors' Snug Harbor, Madison Square Garden 137 St. Patrick's Cathedral, Interior of 159 Staten Island 27 Mail and Express Building 77 St. Paul Building 81

Church Missions House, Entrance 159 Manhattan Life Insurance Co.'s Building . . S3 St. Paul Chapel ...... 79 City Hall Park and New Buildings on Broadway 91 Matthews, J. H., Residence of 205 St. Thomas Church 167 Parties, City Prison 103 May Central Park 191 Stock Exchange Building . . 49 Coffee Exchange ... 63 Memorial Arch, Brooklyn 233 Temple Beth-El 145

' College of Pharmacy iS5 Metropolitan Club 153 The Mall. Central Park . 179 Colonial Club 203 Metropolitan Museum of Art 1S7 Trinit) C' lire':!, from Wall Street 67 Columbia University, Library of 20Q Montauk Club, Brooklyn 245 Union S |ii ir- 123 Columbus Monument 175-177 Moonlight on New York Bay 21 United Stall s Sub-Treasury 69 Conklin, Roscoe, Statue of 89 Morningside Park 223-229 United State, Trr.-t Co 6s Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange . si New East River Bridge 237 Vanderbilt, C rnelie.s. Residence of 169 Corn Exchange Bank 65 New York Bay from I3attery 7 View from Brooklyn, showing East River Dakota Flats 201 New York Ba\'. a Misty Morning on 17 Bridge 5 David Island .... 39 New V..rk Cit\ Hall 97 View from Grant's Tomb 217 Delmonico's 61 New York Clearing House 61 View from North River s Dun Building 75 New York Life Building loi View Looking Northeast from Roof of Office Empire Building 57 New York Post Office 85 Building, b6 Broadway 31 Fidelity & Casualty Co.'s Building 63 New York Stock Exchange, Interior of .... 73 View Looking Southwest from Roof of Office

Fifth Avenue, Fifty-first to Fifty-second Street . 161 Normal College 193 Building, 66 Broadwav 11 Fifth Avenue, Looking North froin One Hundred Ocean Steamers in Berths, North River . ... 41 Wall Street and Trinity Church 67

Street Ocean Steamers Outward Bound Vessel in . and Twenty-sixth 227 255 War New York Harbor ... . 253 Fifth Avenue, Looking South from Twenty- Park Row Building 87 Washinet-n Hn

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CHURCH AND LIBRARY, SAH.OR'S SNUG HARBOR—West New Brighton, Staten Island.

R. W. Gibson, Architect.

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SOUND STEAMER LEAVING NORTH RIVER PIER.

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I'ORT SCHUYLER — Entrance to Long- Lsland Sound.

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THE COFFEE EXCHANGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK— 113-117 Pearl Street. R. W. Gibson. Architect. 63

CORN EXCHANGE BANK— Corner William and Beaver Streets. UNITED STATES TRUST CO. —45 Wall Street. R. H. Robertson, Architect. R. W. Gibson, Architect.

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UUN BUILDING. Northeast Corner Broadway and Reade Street.

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MX. TRinUXK. PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE.

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THli CITY HALL — In City Hall Park, between Broadway and Park Row, opposite Murray Street.

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GANSEVOORT MARKET—West and Washington Streets, Gansevoort to Little Twelfth Street. "7

SIXTH AVENUE— Looking north from Fourteenth Street Station of Elevated Railroad.

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CALVARY CHURCH — Twenty-first Street and Fourth Avenue.

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GRAND CENTRAL STATION — Forty -second Street, Vanderbilt Avenue, and Deijew Place.

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ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S PARISH HOUSE — 205 East COLLEGE OF PHARMACY — 1 15 West Sixty-eighth Street. Forty-second Street. Little & O'Connor, Architects. Renwick, Aspinw.^ll & Renwick, Architects. 155

ENTRANCE, CHURCH MISSIONS HOUSE — Southeast INTERIOR OF ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. Corner Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street. R. W. Gibson, Architect. 159

SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARTISTS—215 West Fifty-seventh Street.

H. J. Hardesbergh, Architect.

RESIDENCE OF THE LATE CORNELIUS VANDERBILT— Fifth Avenue, Fifty-seventh to Fifty-eighth Street.

George B. Post, Architect.

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HOTEL NEW NETHERLAND-Northeast Corner Fifth HOTEL SAVOY— Southeast Corner Fifth Avenue and Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street. Fifty-ninth Street. Wm. H. Hume, Architect. Ralph H. Townsend, Architect.

COLUMBUS MONUMENT AND PLAZA—Broadway and 8th Avenue and 59th Street entrance to the Park. The greatest surface line exchange point in the city.

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THE MALL, CENTRAL PARK.

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FOUNTAIN AND LAKE—Central Park.

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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART-Hall of Architectural Casts.

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NORMAL COLLEGE—Park and Lexington Avenues, Sixty-eighth to Sixty-ninth Street.

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GEO. GOULD'S RKSIDKN'CK — Fifth Avenue and Sixty-seventh Street.

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HOTEL MAJESTIC — Central Park (West), Seventy-first to Seventy-second Street.

Alfred Zucker, Architect.

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THE DAKOTA FLATS—Northwest Corner Central Park (West) and Seventy-second Street.

H. J. Hardenburg, Architect.

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RESIDENCE OF JOHN H. MATTHEWS, ESQ.— Northwest Corner Riverside Drive and Ninetieth Street. La.MB & Rich, Architects.

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RIVERSIDE DRIVE—Looking North from One Hundred and Twelfth Street.

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RIVERSIDE DRIVE — Looking North from One Hundred and Twentieth Street.

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RIVERSIDE DRIVE—Looking North from Grant's Tomb.

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GRANT'S TOMB. RIVERSIDE DRIVE.

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ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL—West One Hundred and Thirteenth Street. View from Morningside Park.

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FIFTH AVENUE, LOOKING NORTH FROIVI ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH STREET.

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MORNINGSIDE PARK.

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IN PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN.

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WAR VESSEL IN NEW YORK HARBOR — Armored Cruiser " New York.

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OCEAN STEAMER OUTWARD BOUND. "The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse."

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