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Northeast corner of 81st Street and Fifth Avenue: Showing the small frame houses which stood here prior to the erection of an ultra-luxurious apartment house, the first to be erected in this exclusive section of Fifth Avenue

Two images on one page.

Northeast corner of 83rd Street and Fifth Avenue: Showing at right the tiny frame house of Mrs. Hicks Arnold.

The squatters' settlement which occupied the site of Andrew Carnegie's residence.

Two images on one page.

118th Street and Fifth Avenue about 1880: Fifth Avenue is the street shown on the left, with Mount Morris Park in the distance

The end of Fifth Avenue, 143rd Street and the Harlem River

Plan of the City of New York

Sergeant Van Arsdale tearing down the British flag

Showing Washington's line of march from Bull's Head (Bowery) to Cape's Tavern, in Broadway and thence to Fort George [map]

Cover illustration: "Civil Rights: A History of the New York Riot of 1871"

Riot of July 19th - View of Eighth Avenue, looking from Twenty-First [?] toward the Grand Opera House

Scene on Eighth Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street

The victims of the riot -- Funeral of Paige and Wyatt of the Ninth Regiment, […]y 16th -- View from the Union League, at Twenty-Sixth Street and Madison Avenue, during the passage of the [….]

Civil (?) Rights. Caption: The Boss -- "Cheer up boys, there's no use crying over spilt milk and then you know as long as we count the votes we're safe" Handwritten note [under title] reads "The board of public works?"

Our White Elephant/"Walk up Ladies and Gentlemen, the Animal is now Feeding"

Caliban: This island's mine by sycorax my mother which thou tak'st from me" Shakespeare

The home of a thousand people

The bright side of life in a tenement house

The dark side -- under the same roof

Pig Alley

A new tenement of the better sort: one of many recently erected by private enterprise

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