Six on NY History: Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories; The Empire State Building; Team of New York City Inspectors

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Stereograph of the Atlantic Telegraph Jubilee, New York, 1858.jpg
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Crowds greet Lincoln’s body in 1865 as it’s carried through Buffalo, New York.jpg
New York anti-suffragists on a day trip up the Hudson River, May 30, 1913.jpg
A Soviet map of New York City..jpg
Lorraine Hansberry in her apartment in New York City, 1959..jpg
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A shared room at the Bellevue Men’s Shelter, housed since 1984 in the former psychiatric building of Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 2010.jpg
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New York at sunset.jpg
The view of New York City from across the Hudson River in Weehawken, New Jersey. the photo was taken on September 11, 2017..jpeg
Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire - Desolation, 1836. Courtesy New York Historical Society.jpg
eFather Daniel J. Berrigan gave an anti-war sermon at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, 1972..jpg
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley listens to a speech during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Dec. 8 in New York City..jpeg
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