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AP Photo/New York City Municipal Archives, Department of Bridges/Plant & Structures, Eugene de Salignac
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Tale of one city: almost one million never-before-seen photos of New York released
Some 870,000 images of New York City dating back from the mid-1880s have been released for the first time – showing everything from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings.
THE CITY OF New York has released to the public almost one million never-before-seen photographs, chronicling life on its streets over the past 100 years.
The city’s Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database Tuesday. A previously unpublicised link to the images has been live for about two weeks for maintenance and testing.
Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the photographs feature all manner of city oversight — from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings.
The project was four years in the making, part of the department’s mission to make city records accessible to everyone, said department assistant commissioner Kenneth Cobb.
“We all knew that we had fantastic photograph collections that no one would even guess that we had,” Cobb said.
Taken mostly by anonymous municipal workers, some of the images have appeared in publications but most were accessible only by visiting the archive offices in lower Manhattan over the past few years.
Researchers, history buffs, filmmakers, genealogists and preservationists in particular will find the digitized collection helpful. But anyone can search the images, share them through social media or purchase them as prints.
The gallery includes images from the largest collection of criminal justice evidence in the English-speaking world, a repository that holds glass-plate photographs taken by the New York City Police Department.
It also features more than 800,000 color photographs taken with 35mm cameras of every city building in the mid-1980s to update the municipal records, and includes more than 1,300 rarely seen images taken by local photographers of the Depression-era Works Progress Administration.
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Because of technological and financial constraints, the digitised gallery does not include the city’s prized collection of 720,000 photographs of every city building from 1939 to 1941. But the database is still growing, and the department plans to add more images.
Eugene de Salignac
Among the known contributors to the collection was Eugene de Salignac, the official photographer for the Department of Bridges/Plant & Structures from 1906 to 1934. An iconic Salignac photograph, taken 7 October, 1914, and now online, shows more than a half-dozen painters lounging on wires on the Brooklyn Bridge.
“A lot of other photographers who worked for the city were pretty talented but did not produce such a large body of work or a distinct body of work,” said Michael Lorenzini, curator of photography at the Municipal Archives and author of “New York Rises” that showcases Salignac images.
Maira Liriano, manager of the New York Public Library’s local history and genealogy division, said the tax photo collections are of particular interest to researchers.
For example, she said, homeowners seeking to restore their historic houses often go to the Municipal Archives to get images of what the buildings looked like in the 1940s or 1980s.
The same collection is also used by people doing research for film productions, family historians hoping to see what their ancestors’ homes looked like, and scholars trying to measure the transformation of the metropolis over time.
Crime mystery
One popular cache includes photos shot mostly by NYPD detectives, nearly each one a crime mystery just begging to be solved. The black-and-white, top-down image of the two men in the elevator shaft is a representative example.
Although it did not carry a crime scene photo, the New York Tribune reported Nov. 25, 1915, under the headline “Finding of two bodies tells tale of theft,” that the bodies of a black elevator operator and a white engineer of a Manhattan building were found “battered, as though from a long fall.”
The news report said the two men tried to rob a company on the fifth floor of expensive silks, but died in their attempt. The elevator was found with $500 worth of silk inside, stuck between the 10th and 11th floors.
Luc Sante, an author and a professor of writing and photography at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, used images from the police collection for his 1992 book “Evidence.”
“They’re remarkable. They’re brutal. But they are also very beautiful,” he said.
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@Furious George – The Wasp:
Who here doesn’t use or need a data centre?
Social media, like photographs, video clips, Netflix, Spotify, WhatsApp, Tinder,your tap and go card, going to the doctor, hospitals, medical records, patient records, financial institutions, banks, restaurants for bookings, airlines for processing customer information, all use data centres.
Secondary storage is cheap, you can reduce your digital footprint by backing up your important files to memory stick or external hard drives instead of the cloud.
Not all data stored in a data centre is environmentally equal either.
Consider the difference between an online service which removes the need to use energy to travel to the service provider and the multiple storage of the same video content from a music concert.
@4g4mPnNi: there are 208 countries in the world. 16 of which are on the same latitude north of the equator. More north of us. I’m not bothered cou ting the countries with a similar latitude in the southern hemisphere. I guess my point is , why should they all locate here? Why do they take up so much of our usage while other countries have few or no data centres . They pay little tax compared to the normal worker . They get cheaper rates for electricity and cause a massive strain on our grid. Moderation should be the way foward .
@Furious George – The Wasp: comment written on a phone, while sitting watching Netflix just before you check your bank account balance all done before you go to bed so you can be up early for work where you have to send emails yadda Yadda yadda. Stop talking from yer whoop!!
Government signed up to all of these unreachable climate targets. Now we’ll get fined billions for not hitting them. Money racket for someone, if ever there was one.
@Tony Murphy: How can we build hundreds of thousands of new houses (mainly for immigrants), fully dependent on electricity, and at the same time reduce our usage of electricity.
@Thomas Sheridan: We tie our own laces together, its sort of hilarious. ““The situation with transport will be very challenging as we will likely exceed the first transport sectoral ceiling by some considerable amount perhaps requiring a halving of annual transport emissions through the second period,”… like how? Stop people working?… Eamon Ryan literally asleep.
@Thesaltyurchin: on a positive climate related note, some large industrial users, like Intel, are on the verge of bankruptcy and closing down. Think of all the transport emissions savings as well when 6000 people stop travelling to work there.
@Thomas Sheridan: Horrid isn’t it… everywhere I’ve been governments a re mostly trying to move their people around to the benefit of their daily lives, weather its thousands of mopeds or state of art railways, but here it’s just all messed up, like the opposite or something.
@Mark R: One of the biggest shames is the EU Marginal Pricing Policy which is directly responsible for the huge increases in electricity prices. Despite promising to remove gas from the policy, the EU has done nothing for the consumer who continues to pay extortionate rates for electricity.
Not one candidate brought this madness up in the recent EU election campaigns. Not one media asked any candidate a question about this policy.
It doesn’t matter how much renewable energy we produce, consumers are never going to see a cent in savings thanks to the disastrous Marginal Pricing Policy. That money will go to lining the pockets of vested interests.
Ireland needs to shift it’s energy policy to building nuclear and become self sufficient.
Record year for wind & solar energy output & Data Centres used up 80% of that increase, a red flag if ever there was one. Nobody shouting stop or calling for investigations into why the IDA, Councils & Eamon Ryan are ploughing the State headlong towards having most of Europes data stored here, putting our Grid infrastructure to the point of Blackouts & blowing our Emissions Targets out the window. Follow the Money !!! Households paying the highest rate for Energy in Europe & subsidizing behemoths like Goggle & Amazon, the whole scandal stinks. Ordinary families paying the price for our Govt being in the pocket of big business & 40 more Data Centres being built or in the Planning process, no real journalists left to expose it either.
@SV3tN8M4: They don’t care and The Green Party are Fine Gael on bikes. They screw over working families to ensure profiteers in big green industry can get away like bandits at our expense. The Greens just want to replace Big Oil with Big Wind. Same circus, different clowns.
@Dave Callaghan: imagine wanting something, that benefits the country’s economy, to halt growth. Are you on something??lol?? The issue is with the grid. We need to increase capacity. Simples!!!
@Darren Lynch: it doesn’t benefit our economy, that’s part of the problem. Better to build housing rather than data centres. They only benefit to the economy is the build phase.
I’ve worked in this space and very few jobs result from data centres. It’s best to build them in colder climates as suggested elsewhere in these comments.
Massive inroads have been made to make them more climate friendly but employment is very low in modern data centres. Invest in housing.
If we’re fined by eu for being bold children the data centres should pay the fine and we’ll all wake up to electricity blackouts because of these same data centres other countries are not as soft as ireland but we give everything away cheaply
Electric car are also demanding if you consider they are also increasing. They want more taxes and try to justify it. Hybrid use petrol so will be taxed too. Corporations will not pay more for their data centre.
So when will all this end. The way big business has a free ride on the backs of the bruses they create is staggering. Will a change in government end it,I doubt it. Wil mass demonstrations change it,I doubt it. The capitalists have taken over and you are just a tax number.
@Telemachine: because we have a bunch of muppets running the country,when did any irish goverment ever hit a target? roads,schools,climate (that is the biggest scam in history) this list goes on and on its usually over budget and over time the only target thay can hit is tax take when they are shafting ordinary people.
@Darren Lynch: Any new industry requiring massive energy usages should be required, as part of their planning requirements, to build renewable energy infrastructure to counteract their demand on the Grid. It shouldn’t be solely the responsibility of the grid.
One thing everyone needs to know – if we don’t build them here they’ll be built elsewhere and so there’s still an impact on the environment. If we don’t build them we lose out on investment and jobs..
Now to force smart meter home users to reduce by screwing them in peak hours so the new joe soap will have dinner at 1 am. Do the washing at 4am ect car use will also be hammered mileage tax to reduce their emissions farmers will only grow trees but will they protect our fish stocks
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This is my concern, we are granting planning at a rapid pace for solar farms on the best of land. We are told its the best way forward. ARE WE SURE? solar farms are simply feeding the data centres. Not to mention the water consumption!. Can we not be more creative around location of solar farms and developing stronger policy around data centres.
We have the wind and waves and yet we do not push those recourses.
Green energy and as much as we want, who complain, the greens.
We have wide open bogs which could have wind generators, who complains the greens!
Wave generators, it could upset the fish or the birds.
It goes on and on!
Let be honest governments and 1 percenters of Ireland and world dont give beep. Its less well off who try harder and are asked to suffer more so they can have little more. Be better world without internet i feel. But let s continue to do things without thinking how this going work. Thats what Irish government being doing for years. Thats why country is unstable as cost living out of control. But there good . Dont forget vote them back in next year.
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