Wintertime View, after snowfall, with snow banks along Fifth Avenue in New York City. Taxis and buses moving on the avenue. Door mat reads:"587 Thos. Cook & Son." Pedestrians in winter coats and hats. People enter and come out of door marked 'American Express Company'. Men standing under sign 'Thos. Cook and Son Wagons-Lits Inc.'. People entering travel office of 'Thos. Cook and Son'. Empire State Building visible in mist in background.
View from a boat under way in New York Harbor. Lower Manhattan seen, including the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, still under final construction. Statue of Liberty in view. Ferries under way.
View of a lake in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City. In the background, the high rise buildings, including skyscrapers, hotels and office buildings of the Manhattan skyline are visible.
A film titled ' Departure of Peary [and the] Roosevelt from New York '. A large steamship docked at pier in background. The schooner "Roosevelt" docked at a pier. Seemingly wealthy men in straw hats and women in long dresses and elaborate hats, consistent with late gilded age, board ship. Polar explorer Robert Peary seen on the gangway. Several other vessels seen in the river.
A film titled 'New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market' . View of the fish market at Fulton and South Street (Fulton Fish Market), Manhattan, in Lower Manhattan near the Financial District, in 1903. A very crowded street market. Rows of pushcarts and street vendors. Immense crowd of people are seen passing along the stands and making their selections of fish.
'Excavating for a New York Foundation '. A crew of laborers can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wooden wagon. A full wagon is slowly lifted out of the pit to street level by a steam driven early design crane. Advertisements and campaign posters can be seen on the wall of the building in the background, including a large billboard for Cremo cigars. Location is West 29th Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway, looking east, in lower Midtown, Manhattan. Policeman talks with laborers at top of excavation, who are awaiting the filled wagon. They guide the wagon to an elevated landing on the perimeter above the excavation site.
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