akg-images | New York


					New York!


« Back		akg-images is coming to Manhattan in October to exhibit at Visual Connections and participate in this year's PACA Conference. To celebrate this, here's a selection of some of our favourite black-and-white images of NYC from over 100 years of photography of the city. Click on any image to order a high-res scan!



5US-N1-B2-1965 The Manhattan skyline, circa 1965 akg-images / Walter Limot		2-A25-A2-1959 All the construction workers involved in building a skyscraper in New York, 1959 akg-images





1US-2132-F1945-1 Pearl Primus dancing to Honeysucke Rose in Café Society in New York City, circa 1945 akg-images		2-F61-F1-1905 A photographer balances on a steel bar above Fifth Avenue, 1905 akg-images





2-F81-P108 Puttin' on the Ritz in lights at the Earl Carroll Theater, New York, circa 1930 akg-images		2-G10-M1-1958-2 New Yorkers sitting in Madison Square Park, 1958 akg-images / Paul Almasy





2-G82-A4-1918 The 'Human Squirrel' climbs a skyscraper on Times Square to promote war bonds, circa 1918 akg-images		2-G110-A7-1911 British women arrive in New York to meet their fiancés who have already emigrated to the USA, 1911 akg-images





2-P100-V1-1960-2 A newspaper seller outside a subway station, circa 1960 akg-images / Paul Almasy		2-R20-S6-1935-1 Catching some sun, 1930s akg-images





5US-N1-B2-1981-2 The southern tip of Manhattan, 1981 akg-images / Michel Dieuzaide		5US-N1-B2-1991-16 The southern tip of Manhattan by night, 1991 akg-images





5US-N1-B2-2005 View from the East River of the skyline, 2005 akg-images / Leon R. Rosenow		5US-N1-B9-1930 A street scene in the Jewish Quarter on the Lower East Side, 1930s Bildarchiv Pisarek / akg-images





5US-N1-B6-1958 View of a Brooklyn tenement, circa 1958 akg-images / Paul Almasy		5US-N1-D1-1981-1 Trash overflowing in Manhattan, 1981 akg-images / Michel Dieuzaide





5US-N1-D5-2005 Street scene, 2005 akg-images / Leon R. Rosenow		5US-N1-D9-1941 Times Square during the transmision of a speech by F.D.R., 1941 akg-images





5US-N1-D10-1902-1 From Brooklyn Bridge West, 1902 akg-images		5US-N1-D47-1968 The corner of 52nd Street and Park Avenue, 1968(?) akg-images / Walter Limot





9US-1945-8-14-A1 Celebrating the end of the Second World War on Times Square, 14 August 1945 akg-images		7US-N1-USNY2A-00046 From the top of the Singer Building, New York City, 1900 akg-images / North Wind Picture Archives





5US-N1-S3-1926-1 The interior of Grand Central Station, 1924 akg-images / ullstein bild		5US-N1-V2-1958-1 On the subway, circa 1958 akg-images / Paul Almasy



		Didn't find the image you wanted in this selection? There are plently more images of New York - in black and white or colour - in the akg-images archive. Search the database yourself or email through a request list, we're happy to help!

5US-N1-H1-1945 A 1940s aerial view of the Statue of Liberty akg-images