Guide to the John Albok Photograph Collection 1928 - 1997 (Bulk: 1930 - 1980) PR 001

Photographs of New York City street scenes and events

Guide to the Jessie Tarbox Beals Photograph Collection [1900-1940] (Bulk 1904-1920) PR 004

Jessie Tarbox Beals, the first female photojournalist, lived in New York City for many years and documented the Greenwich Village bohemian scene, city scenes, and backyard gardens.

Guide to the Arthur D. Chapman Photograph Collection 1908-1922, 1953 PR 015

Collection of sixty photographs by Arthur D. Chapman featuring compositions of pictorial interest in his everyday surroundings in New York, and particularly in Greenwich Village. Two self-portraits are also included.

Guide to the Arnold Genthe Photograph Collection [1895]-1942 (Bulk 1906-1927) PR 019

The Arnold Genthe Photograph Collection primarily contains examples of Genthe's early work in San Francisco's Chinatown, later portraits of well-known personalities in the arts, politics, and society, classic photographs of Isadora Duncan and other early modern dancers, and both color and black-and-white landscapes of Long Island and Westchester, New York, and of international destinations such as Guatemala and Japan.

Guide to the Pirie MacDonald Portrait Photograph Collection [1885]-1942 (Bulk 1900-1942) PR-039

The collection consists of 500 portraits of men made in New York City between 1900 and 1942. Dramatic lighting characterizes MacDonald's soft focus head-and-shoulder portraits, which are contact prints from glass negatives.