"NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections."

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This museum tells the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was home to nearly 7000 working class immigrants. The site has collections that include pictures of Five Points.

"This marvelous collection from the Library of Congress's American Memory Project brings together 45 films of New York from 1896 to 1906. The films were made by the American Mutoscope and Biography Company and the Edison Company."

1859 to 1930 minutes are represented on this web site as pdfs.

"The Vault at Pfaff's brings together in one place the poetry, drama, art, fiction, and social commentary that the Pfaff's bohemians produced, including The New York Saturday Press, the weekly periodical that served as the group's literary organ during this period."