Museum of the City of New York

Bronx real estate mogul J. Clarence Davies (1868-1934) assembled his collection of New York City imagery over a forty year period, collecting voraciously and comprehensively. In 1929 he gave his collection to the City Museum. At the time, the gift was valued at $500,000 and included paintings, prints, maps, book illustrations, printed ephemera, and other materials that reflect all five boroughs and span the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th. In 2013 the Museum completed a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to conserve more than 150 prints, maps, and paintings from this collection, and digitize 1,600. Explore those and other objects from the Davies collection here.

**The Burning of the Bowery Theatre on the Evening of the 25th of April, 1845.**

**Broadway, New-York, 1836**
*Showing each building from Webb's Emporium of Light cor. Canal Street to beyond Niblo's Garden. Presented...*

**The Produce Exchange**
*Street view of the Produce Exchange & surrounding buildings*

**Valuable Real Estate Record, an Instance of Great Real Increase of Values in Property on Manhattan Island**
*Map showing Fifth Avenue to Fourth Avenue, from 71st to 74th Streets. | Includes a copy of a portion...*

**Fifth Avenue - 40th to 42nd St.**
*View of the west side of 5th Ave. from 40th St. to 42nd St. showing the Croton Distributing Reservoir....*

**Bird's-Eye View of the Great New York and Brooklyn Bridge and Grand Display of Fireworks on the Opening Night.**

**New-York from Weehawk**
*Printed by M. Williams No. 49 Sullivan Street New York.*

**Five Points House of Industry**
*Designed & on stone by James A. Shearman. N.Y.*

**Fire Engines, 151 Essex Street**
*The colored lithograph was made from nature on stone and printed by Geo. G. Gratacap, 142 Grand St.,...*

**St. Paul's Chapel**
*This painting depicts St. Paul's Chapel on the right and Barnum's American Museum is seen on the left....*

**Vue Générale de New - York. [Aerial view of New York City.]**

**New York**
*Includes decorative borders.*

**View of East River or Sound, taken from Riker's Island, with a Distant View of Joshua Waddington, Esq.**

**Arrivee du Paquetbot Transatlanitque [View of New York from the South East]**
*View of New York Harbor.*

**Quarantine, 1833 (tompkinsville, staten island)**
*PRINTS - AQUATINT*

**New York City Hall, Park and Environs**

**Croton Water Celebration 1842**
*Published by J. F. Atwill, 201 Broadway.*

**Birds Eye View of New York and Environs**
*Published by Kimmel & Forster, 254 & 256 Canal St. N.Y.*

**The Crystal Palace**
*For the Great Exhibition of the WORLD'S Industry at New York : 1853. Published for the History of the...*

**The Old East India Ware House.**
*Corner of South and Fletcher Sts. New York.*

**New York From Heights Near Brooklyn**
*Painted and published by Willm. G. Wall New York 1823. "New York From Heights Near Brooklyn. To Thomas...*

**Turn Out Of The Employees Of The American Express Company**
*Cor: Hudson, Jay & Staple Streets New York City June 21 1858*

**Washington entering New York on the Evacuation of the Royalists**
*Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852 by Frederick B. Stacy in the Clerks Office of the...*

**The Castello Plan. New Amsterdam in 1660.**
*1916 reproduction.*

**Broadway**
*From Warren to Reade St. Published by W. Stephenson & Co. 252 Broadway, N.Y.*

**Chickering & Sons New Piano Warerooms & Music Hall**
*E.H. Williams del. Photolithograph by Rockwood N.Y. Geo. B. Post Archt. 120 Bway.*

**Fifth Avenue Hotel**
*View of the Fifth Avenue Hotel on 5th Ave. and Broadway, 23rd St. to 24th St.*

**Central Park**
*New York City. Looking South, from the Observatory. | Entered according to Act of Congress in the year...*

**The New Tribune Building.**
*Printing House Square Nassau Chatham Spruce and Frankfort Streets. Armstrong & Co. lith. Boston.*

**View of Broadway in the City of New York with the proposed Elevated Rail-Way invented by John Randel, Junr. C.E.**
*Drawn on stone by R. J. Rayner. | Includes a key of references and remarks.*

**View of New York, 1848 (The Papprill View from St. Paul's Chapel)**
*Colored aquatint of the Papprill View of St. Paul's Chapel at Broadway and Fulton St. [AHF label: ...*

**View of New York from the Brooklyn Navy Yard**
*Illustration of lower Manhattan from above with boats in water and certain landmarks prominently displayed....*

**An Interior View of the Crystal Palace.**
*C. Parsons del. and lith. Printed by Endicott & Co. N.Y. New York, Published by Geo. S. Appleton , 356...*

**St. Johannes Kirche & Academie in New York.**
*(Gewidmet dem Herrn Pastor A. H. M. Held.) Gezeichnet von P. M. Moeller. Lith. of F. Heppenheimer 22...*

**The Old Brewery at the Five Points N.Y.**
*As it appeared Decr. 1st 1852 previous to its being torn down by the Ladies Home Missionary Socy. of...*

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