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Gallery Highlights

Highlights from our collection are shown below. Click on pictures to view in detail. The full collection can either be found here or accessed with expanded metadata at METRO’s Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York.

Image of two buses and crowds of people outside Yankee Stadium
A Day At The Game
Image of a living room with couches, paintings, and lights.
A Parkchester Apartment
Image of an aerial view of the East Bronx showing Jacobi Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Co-op City in the distance.
Air View Of The East Bronx
Image of a large factory building on a slanted hill. A car sits in front of it.
Bronx Apparel Center
Image of a waterfall and many trees
Bronx Park Views (1 of 4)
Image of the Bronx Union YMCA Building with several trees, cars, and benches. An unknown person appears to have just crossed a street.
Bronx Union YMCA Building
Image of reedbucks, rush bucks, and nyalas in front of a moat. Lions look out from a rock pile.
African Plains Animals
Image of a busy street scene with pedestrians, automobiles, buses, an elevated subway line, taxi and even Hearns Dept. Store employees on strike.
East 149th St. & Third Ave.
Photograph of a high school building.
Evander Childs High School
Aerial view of the Fordham Hill houses. A gas tank is visible to the right, as are railroad lines and other buildings.
Fordham Hill Houses
Image of buildings, cars, and trolley tracks at Fordhman Road. The New York Botanical Gardens are visible in the distance.
Fordham Road
Image of High Bridge from the unpaved Speedway.
High Bridge
Image of an old timey hotel that is mostly brick facaded. Several cars wait outside.
Hotel Concourse Plaza
Image of colleagiate gothic buildings with ivy growing on their walls.
Hunter College In The Bronx
Image of modernist building whose facade looks like square honeycombs.
Hunter College In The Bronx
Image of an aerial photograph of the Jerome Park Reservoir and surrounding areas.
Jerome Park Reservoir
Image of a catering hall with chairs, pitchers of water and flowers on tables.
Lauritanos Restaurant – Blue Room
Image of a highway with very little taffic, as well as parked cars, railroad tracks, and residential buildings.
Major Deegan Expressway
Image of a large brick building.
Mount St. Michael Academy
Image of a building with trees, and a plaque noting that the New York State Maritime Academy was established in 1875 and is the oldest Maritime Academy in the United States.
New York State Maritime Academy
image of borough hall with red-white-and-blue flags and garlands
Borough Hall
Image of two workers holding cables on printing press equipment
R. Hoe & Co., Inc.
Image of movie theatre, its marquee, and many people and cars. Alexander's store is visible in the background.
RKO Fordham
Image of an ornate rotunda and a road in front of it.
Rotunda Of The Hall Of Fame For Great Americans
Image of a sailboat sitting in dry dock
Sail Boat On City Island
Image of apartment buildings, medians with trees, sidewalks with people, streetcars, and 1920s-era automobiles.
Southern Blvd. & E. 180th St
Image of an architectural rendering of the golf course entrance. A columned building, tables with umbrellas, people, and trees are all visible.
Split Rock Golf Course Clubhouse
View of the Triborough bridge from below it.
Triborough Bridge
Three women cut fish. One is glancing sideways at the camera, and another smiles.
Vita Wellbrock Kearney
Image of a factory building with a water tower on top saying Ward and a smokestack saying "bread."
Ward Baking Co

This Collection also contains a variety of documents, including articles from Bronxboro, the publication of the Bronx Board of Trade. Highlights from those are linked to below, and more articles can be found on the Documents page.

Bronx Institutions

Board Lauded For 45 Years Of Service To The Bronx

Bronx Zoological Park Opened 25 Years Ago On November 8th

Orchard Beach Development

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