Museum of the City of New York Photos

The Museum of the City of New York (1220 Fifth Ave.) at the top of the Museum Mile traces period room decors since the Dutch founded New York, shows antique toys, Broadway theater history, shipping history from its port and various special exhibits.

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Museum of the City of New York (1928-30) (1220 Fifth Ave.). Style: Georgian Colonial. Architect: Joseph J. Freedlander.

Main entrance of Museum of the City of New York.

DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) statue (1941) by Adolph Weinman outside Museum of the City of New York.

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) statue (1941) by Adolph Weinman outside Museum of the City of New York.

Trompe-l'oeil stained glass window of garden view at Museum of the City of New York.

Dutch alcove with colonial furniture (c17th C) at Museum of the City of New York.

Cherry Street alcove with colonial card table & furniture (c1750-76) at Museum of the City of New York.

Cherry Street alcove (c1750-76) at Museum of the City of New York.

Benkard Memorial Bedroom with 18th C panelling & furnishings at Museum of the City of New York.

Collection of cream-colored English earthenware (18th C) in Benkard Memorial Bedroom at Museum of the City of New York.

Flat silver candlestick with douter (1814) by Robert Shepherd & William Boyd of Albany at Museum of the City of New York.

Drawing Room (1906) from home of H.H. Flagler by Willard Parker Little in Italiian styles at Museum of the City of New York.

Setee in Flagler alcove at Museum of the City of New York.

Side table with collected objects in Flagler alcove at Museum of the City of New York.

Model of street layout of New Amsterdam (c1660) at Museum of the City of New York.

Painting (1858) of financial panic on Wall Street at Two O'Clock, Oct. 13, 1857 by James Cafferty & Charles G. Rosenberg at Museum of the City of New York.

Clipper Ship Sweepstakes painting (1853) by Fitz Hugh Lane at Museum of the City of New York.

Collection of ads for Clipper Ships sailings New York to San Francisco (c1850s) at Museum of the City of New York.

Placard advertising Clipper Ship Franklin (c1850s) at Museum of the City of New York.

Statue of Robert Fulton, inventory of the steamboat, at Museum of the City of New York.

Head of statue of Robert Fulton at Museum of the City of New York.

Detail of Robert Fulton statue with model of Manhattan-Brooklyn ferry boat Nassau (1814) at Museum of the City of New York.

Model of Steamship Clermont (1806-7) invented by Robert Fulton & built in Manhattan at Museum of the City of New York.

Model of Steamship City of Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic (1819) was built in New York at Museum of the City of New York.

Diorama of steamship on harborfront of early New York City at Museum of the City of New York.

Painting of Hudson River Steamship Mary Powell (1861) by James Baird at Museum of the City of New York.

Model of ironclad Monitor (1862) designed by John Ericsson & built in New York at Museum of the City of New York.

Painting of J. Pierpont Morgan's yacht Corsair III (c1899) by Antonio Jacobsen at Museum of the City of New York.

Omnibus pull toy (c1874) designed by George W. Brown at Museum of the City of New York.

Toy horse-drawn fire hose carriage (c1890-6) at Museum of the City of New York.

Tammany mechanical bank (c1873) portrays Boss Tweed who pockets coins by J.&E. Stevens Co. at Museum of the City of New York.

Mechanical Mouse Merrymakers Band (c1931) by Marx Toy Co. at Museum of the City of New York.

Build your own New York World's Fair toy (1939) by Standard Toycraft Products at Museum of the City of New York.

New York World's Fair toy (1939) building cutouts at Museum of the City of New York.

Folkart rabbit at Museum of the City of New York.


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