New NYC Online Photo Archive Launches

Posted on April 25, 2012 by jgieseking

Below is some background on the new NYC photo archive, and a link to the site itself.

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Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City by the Associated Press

Almost a million images of New York and its municipal operations have been made public for the first time on the internet. The city’s Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database. Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the 870,000 photographs feature all manner of city oversight — from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134408/Never-seen-photos-100-years-ago-tell-vivid-story-gritty-New-York-City.html#ixzz1t42oUh53

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New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery

This ever-expanding gallery is your entry point into the vast visual holdings of the Archives.  The Online Gallery provides free and open research access to over 800,000 items digitized from the Municipal Archives’ collections, including photographs, maps, motion-pictures and audio recordings.  The holdings are arranged by collection; or you may search “All Collections” by keyword or any of the advanced search criteria.  Patrons may order prints or digital files, and license images or film clips for commercial use. … Some of the images in the Online Gallery may be subject to third-party rights such as copyright and/or rights of privacy/publicity. … Before using any images from this site, please review our Terms and Conditions. Enter the Online Gallery here.

About jgieseking

Jen Gieseking is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental psychology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on the production of lesbians' and queer women's spaces and places, specifically how and why these spaces have changed and/or remained the same over generations in New York City and what this says about these women's shifting experiences of justice and oppression. Her previous work has examined how the physical, social, and historical campus is affected and reflected in the identity development of its students and alumnae spanning generations throughout the 20th century. She is interested in the sociocultural production and private/public aspects of everyday spaces of identity around sexuality, gender, race, and class, the right to the city and the right to design and produce the city, cognitive and mental mapping methodologies, and feminist and queer pedagogy. She has served as a Writing Fellow at Hunter College, Fellow of The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Fellow of the Summer Institute for Geographers of Justice, Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellow, CLAGS Joan Heller-Diane Barnard Fellow in Lesbian and Gay Studies, and is a member of the Participatory Action Research Collective.
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