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.