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Map of Fifth Avenue from 40th to 50th Streets in 1852: showing the cattle yards on Fifth Avenue from 44th to 46th Streets.

Colored orphan asylum, from 1842 to 1863: 44th Street and Fifth Avenue

Ye Olde Willow Cottage -- the Willow Tree and Tyson's Market, 1880: Southeast corner of 44th Street and Fifth Avenue, now the site of the American Real Estate Company's building

Old House, 45th Street near 5th Avenue, 1849.

Two images on one page.

John B. Cornell and Manton Marble Residences, 1889: Cornell house on the corner and Marble residence adjoining before they became the home of The Fifth Avenue Bank.

Windsor Hotel, Fifth Avenue, 46th to 47th Streets, 1898

Elgin Botanic Gardens: Between 50th and 51st Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues, 1825

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 1829-1853: Between 49th and 50th Streets near Madison Avenue. Later occupied by Columbia College.

Twin Vanderbilt houses: 51st and 52nd Streets. "Island homes in a flood of business"

St. Patrick's Cathedral: Fifth Avenue, 50th to 51st Streets

Old Catholic Orphan Asylum, about 1852: 51st Street and Fifth Avenue

Easter Sunday parade passing St. Thomas' Episcopal Church: Northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street. Showing the results of a heavy snowstorm: April 2, 1915

54th Street looking west from Fifth Avenue, 1867: The dwelling on the left is No 4. West 54th Street, now the home of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and on the right is St. Luke's Hospital, now the site of the University Club and the Hotel Gotham

Marble Row -- Fifth Avenue between East 57th Street and East 58th Streets: Part of the estate of John Mason, from which the Joneses, Iselins and the Hamersleys inherited their Fifth Avenue holdings

Fashionable turnouts in Central Park, New York

Pond of the New York Skating Club in 1860: at 59th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues

View in Central Park southward from The Arsenal, 64th Street, June 1858: Fifth Avenue is the roadway on the left. No 1. Columbia College, Madison Avenue near 49th Street. No 2. Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum at 54th Street. No 3. St. Luke's Hospital, 54th Street. No 4. Crystal Palace, 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue.

Central Park before and after: The upper view shows Central Park before it was laid out. The lower is the Martel view of the completed park. A lithograph by Henry C. Eno in 1864.

Henry C. Frick's residence: Occupying the site of the Lennox Library, between 70th and 71st Streets. At the left is Mr. Frick's art gallery, which contains one of the finest private art collections in the world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: View southward from 84th Street and Fifth Avenue

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