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In case you missed this when it was announced a couple months ago: NYC puts 875,000 archived photos, images online - NYPOST.com: The city’s Municipal Archives rolled out a new online site that gives the public access to a treasure trove of 875,000 historic photos of the Big Apple, with some dating back to the mid-1800s. There are snapshots of Yankee slugger Babe Ruth — chomping on a cigar and signing autographs for fans — and dozens of dramatic black-and- white photos of the city’s bridges under construction. There also are decades’ worth of photos of the city’s once-bustling and industrial waterfront. Below are a handful of pics that accompanied the NYPost article. What would be cool is if these were all geo-tagged, and then fed into a mobile app. Imagine walking around the city and being able to pull up photos that would give you a view of what your immediate vicinity looked like 100 years ago—a historical slant on augmented reality. EUGENE DE SALIGNAC ’BREW CREW: Workers dig on Delancey Street on July 29, 1908, in front of a Hebrew-lettered sign that spells out the English words “Men’s Furnishing” and “Extra News on the East Side!” JACK ROSENZWIEG VIEW YORK: The already-dazzling New York City skyline, including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building, shimmers in 1936. NO SMOKING: Firefighters aboard a ladder truck battle a Brooklyn warehouse blaze in the 1950s. HANDIWORK: Workers using hands and shov-els lay bricks as part of the paving of 28th Street in Manhattan in an Oct. 2, 1930, photo from the New York Municipal Archives.

In case you missed this when it was announced a couple months ago: NYC puts 875,000 archived photos, images online - NYPOST.com:

The city’s Municipal Archives rolled out a new online site that gives the public access to a treasure trove of 875,000 historic photos of the Big Apple, with some dating back to the mid-1800s.

There are snapshots of Yankee slugger Babe Ruth — chomping on a cigar and signing autographs for fans — and dozens of dramatic black-and- white photos of the city’s bridges under construction.

There also are decades’ worth of photos of the city’s once-bustling and industrial waterfront.

Below are a handful of pics that accompanied the NYPost article. What would be cool is if these were all geo-tagged, and then fed into a mobile app. Imagine walking around the city and being able to pull up photos that would give you a view of what your immediate vicinity looked like 100 years ago—a historical slant on augmented reality.

BREW CREW: Workers dig on Delancey Street on July 29, 1908, in front of a Hebrew-lettered sign that spells out the English words Mens Furnishing and Extra News on the East Side!
EUGENE DE SALIGNAC
’BREW CREW: Workers dig on Delancey Street on July 29, 1908, in front of a Hebrew-lettered sign that spells out the English words “Men’s Furnishing” and “Extra News on the East Side!”
VIEW YORK: The already-dazzling New York City skyline, including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building, shimmers in 1936.
JACK ROSENZWIEG
VIEW YORK: The already-dazzling New York City skyline, including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building, shimmers in 1936.
NO SMOKING: Firefighters aboard a ladder truck battle a Brooklyn warehouse blaze in the 1950s.
NO SMOKING: Firefighters aboard a ladder truck battle a Brooklyn warehouse blaze in the 1950s.
HANDIWORK: Workers using hands and shov-els lay bricks as part of the paving of 28th Street in Manhattan in an Oct. 2, 1930, photo from the New York Municipal Archives.
HANDIWORK: Workers using hands and shov-els lay bricks as part of the paving of 28th Street in Manhattan in an Oct. 2, 1930, photo from the New York Municipal Archives.

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