In a message dated 12/17/2014 11:19:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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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.
 
You are dedicated!   By NYHS I assume you mean you visited, as  opposed to 
just on line access. Very little is on line.
 
Ouch - 1882-1905 - tough one.  
 
MCNY has a large percentage of its photographs digitized ... but not  
everything.   Visit.  
 
The 1915 subway construction photos along Seventh Avenue (NYHS and Transit  
Archives) are, of course, too late, if I read you correctly.   
 
The "real estate photos" at archives from around 1940 do indeed need a  
visit - they are not on line.  But there are other photographs on their  
sometimes-balky web site - search for NYC Municipal Archives. You must have  done 
this.   
 
There are a few prominent buildings from that time which were prominent  
enough to be photographed - Dime Savings and Imperial Hotel  >>>annex<<< 
(maybe that's 32nd) .   You must  have seen those but this business can be all 
about marginal views.   
 
I assume you have a tally of the addresses.  Post it, with the  bounding 
sidestreets, maybe it will strike a chord with someone.  
 
Wow, nice find.
 
Christopher  


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