Hi Ellen,

Museum of the City of New York posted a couple images bordering Greeley Square from the period in question on www.historypin.org:
	1899 photo of J.J. Corbett’s storefront at 6th Ave & 33rd St.  
	1901 Crowd watching firefighters at 6th Ave & W 32nd St, New York, NY 10001, USA

Perhaps they have the shots you need in their archives.

Happy Holidays!
Clif

Clifton Patrick
Town of Chester Historian
119 Brookside Ave.
Chester, County of Orange
New York 10918

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> On Dec 12, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Ellen Garvey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I am looking for suggestions for where I might find street photos of NYC at the turn of the last century. For an article I am writing, I am trying to find photographs of a fascinating business that moved to several different addresses in the Greeley Square area of Manhattan from 1882 to about 1905. This was the business of Back Number Budd, an African American dealer in old newspapers. Although all descriptions show him operating in basements, some mention a window or display at street level, and I am hoping to find a photo of one of these sites. I have the addresses themselves and the dates he was at each from the city directories, but I have not yet located any photos of his business.
>             I have already gone through the street photo collections of the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, the online collection of the Museum of the City of New York, and the Library of Congress's digitized collection of the Detroit Publishing Company's glass negatives. The NYC archive real estate photos only go back to the 1930s, as I understand it. 
>             Are there other repositories of street photos from this period, preferably searchable by location and/or date?
> Thanks, 
> Ellen
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