Selections From My Postcard Collection
These pages contain scans of old postcards I have collected of places I have lived and liked.

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All images and text Copyright © 2001-2012 Susan White Pieroth

New York City

Far Left and Left: Hudson Terminal and Tubes> The Hudson Terminal Buildings are on Church Street between Cortland and Fulton Streets. The tubes enter the basement from Jersey City.

Right: Pennsylvania RR Station

Left: Battery Park before 1904. The circular building was Castle Garden and became the Aquarium. In the middle is the Coast Guard Station. For an enlargement of the General Slocum, which burned in 1904, click here.
Right: Hudson Terminal; City Investing; Singer; West Street; Trinity; American Surety; U. S. Express; Manhattan Life; No. 42 Broadway; and Standard Oil.

Left: Grand Central Station
Right: Grand Central Depot. The Terminal is on 42nd Street between Vanderbilt and Lexington Avenues.

"Ellis Island Emigrant Building, New York."

The center operated between 1892 and 1924. Right: the inside of the center.

Left: "Post Office, New York" mailed in 1907 from New York, N.Y. Sta. D. This is a very early divided back with a small section at the left labeled, "In space below may be written senders name and address. (No other writing.)"

Left: "River Front, New York." Copyright 1902, published by Illustrated Post Card Co., N. Y. #1928. Right: New York - West Street and Jersey Ferries. At the left is the Lackawanna and Wester R.R. Ferry terminals.

Above: Lower Manhattan. On the left you can see the twin towers under construction.

Left: a similar view from a stereographic card. No date, but possibly the early 1930's.

Left: Twin towers of the World Trade Center. Photo taken in 1977 by a family member.
Far Left: Statue of Liberty, New York, printed in Germany.

Left: Fifth Avenue and 42 Street, copyrighted in 1909.

Right: Fifth Avenue before 1907 (undivided back card).

"Empire State Bldg. N. Y. C. 85 Floors, 1248 Ft. High." This real photo postcard seems to have been taken before the building was completed. Click here for an enlargement of the top. Click here for an enlargement of the bottom half of the picture. Not mailed. It was completed in 1931.
The publisher of this card did not do a good research job - there are not 85, but 102 floors. The height, not counting antennae, is about right. For more statistics see the New York Public Library page Facts about the Empire State Building.

Left: "Flat Iron Bldg." embossed undivided back. An unusual treatment of a frequent postcard subject. Technically it's the Fuller Building, at 23rd Street and 5th Avenue.

Left: Times Square
Right: Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center, 1936

Left: Broadway - around 1900.
Right: Horn & Hardart Automat, Fifty-Seventh Street and Sixth Avenue. The back says there are 158 in New York and Philadelphia.

Left: Wall Street. The Stock Exchange is on the right.

Right: City Hall Park

Far Left and Right: Equitable Life Insurance fire, January 9, 1912.

Left: This card of the New Equitable Life Insurance Building was printed before the structure was complete. The back says it will cost $11,500,000 and the land 14,000,000. Another card, with the same picture, says it will cost $29,000,000. It occupies the block bounded by Broadway, Nassau, Pine and Cedar Streets.

Left: Hester Street before World War I. Apparently it's hot - the kids are playing in the water from the hydrant at the bottom.

Right: "Monday Morning in N. Y. City." copyright 1904.

Left: Cooper Square, mailed January 1904

Right: "Herald Square, Broadway and 35th St. N. Y."

Left: Bowery and Doubledeck Elevated R.R. The back says the Bowery "practically begins at the Brooklyn Bridge under the name of Park Row and ends at Cooper Square.
Right: The Bowery

Far Left: Webb Academy and Home for Shipbuilders. It is now located in Glen Cove, Long Island and is called Webb Institute.
Left: East River and Brooklyn from New York
Right: Subway Station, Bleeker Street, 1906.

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