Buildings Along the Bronx River, 19 March 1912 (PBP-23)
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Dates: 1912-1924
Quantity: 2,700 items
Arrangement: Chronological; and in 8 photograph albums
Indexed: In an Archive's in-house database available in the Reading Room.
Format: Mostly 8x10 black and white prints and 8x10 glass plate negatives.

Official photographic record of the construction of the Bronx River Parkway, America's first public parkway. Includes images which show the condition of the river and life along its banks before and after the construction of the parkway, views of buildings moved or destroyed during construction, and details of the construction activity itself. The collection does not include photographs for the portion of the parkway which is in the Bronx.

See also Series 95: Bronx Parkway Commission Annual Reports and Series 118: Bronx Parkway Commission Minutes. In addition, Series 109: Bronx Parkway Commission Land Acquisitions includes material relevant to many of the properties pictured in these photographs.  Finally, Series 254: Bronx River Parkway Reservation Historic American Engineering Record has both modern and historic photographs as well as engineering drawings relating to the Parkway.

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Cover, Bronx Parkway Commission Photograph Album 

This collection also includes twenty-two of at least thirty photograph albums created for the Bronx Parkway Commission with photographs from the collection (which have been rehoused into eight albums).  These albums contain some of the best images from the collection.

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