Seven Feet Below 115th Street And Fifth Avenue In Harlem, NY 1870
Grading left some lots below street level grading at 117th Street and Fifth Avenue in Harlem, NY.Continue reading
The I. Kunz’s Well In Harlem NY 1898 (Photograph)
A great photograph by Harlem documentarian James Reuel Smith of the I. Kunz's Well, (80 feet west), at 6th Street at West 138th Street, in Harlem, New York, on April 21, 1898.Continue reading
Central Park Spring At 109th Street And 8th Avenue Harlem, New York, 1901
A photograph of the Central Park natural Spring entrance by photographed by James Reuel Smith at West 109th Street at Eighth Avenue in central Harlem, NY, on March 18, 1901.Continue reading
Michael Barry’s Well At West 137th Street Harlem By James Reuel Smith April 21, 1898
A light photograph of Michael Barry's well and horse carriage, on the north side of West 137th Street, between Lenox and Fifth Avenues in Harlem, NY, on April 21, 1898.Continue reading
Old Wooden Shack House, Harlem, NY, 1898
An old wooden shack photographed by James Reuel Smith looking southwest on the west side of Broadway between West 123rd and West 124th Streets in Harlem, NY, November 16, 1898. Continue reading
Pinkney’s Well, Harlem NY, April 21, 1898
Pinkney's Well, north of West 139th Street between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue, New York City, April 21, 1898.
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A Historic Harlem “Wells And Springs” On The Henry Hudson River Shore Line, 1897
A great, clear photograph by James Reuel Smith looking northwest taken of the Wells and Springs building on the shoreline of the Hudson River (with a ship passing in the distance), from the other side of the railroad tracks, between West 122nd and 123rd Streets in West Harlem, New York, on September 28, 1897.
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Small Boy A Top A Well At Broadway And West 124th Street, West Harlem, 1898
Turn of the century Harlem photograph by James Reuel Smith, a small Harlem boy sitting a top a well on the northeast corner of Broadway and West 124th Street, Harlem, New York, April 9, 1898.
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Boy At 115th Street Harlem Well, NY 1897 (Photograph)
We love this wonderful photograph by boy sitting in front of a Harlem Well at 27 West 115th Street, between Fifth and Lenox Avenues on October 26, 1897.Continue reading
Well At West 140th Street, Harlem, NY, 1898 (Photograph)
A great photograph by James Reuel Smith of a long demolished Well at 619-621 West 140th Street (now 625-627), near Riverside Drive in West Harlem, NY, on May 13, 1898.Continue reading
Boy At St. Nicholas Avenue Harlem Spring, NY, 1899 (Photograph)
Unidentified boy is photographed by James Reuel Smith seated on a boulder above a spring at St. Nicholas Avenue and West 139th Street, Harlem, New York, May 5, 1899.
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115th Street Well, At The East Wall Of 27 W. 115th Street, NY, 1897
A great dramatic photograph of the 115th Street Well, at the east wall of 27 West 115th Street, on the north side between Fifth Avenue and Lenox Avenue, Harlem, NY, December 27, 1897.Continue reading
Well And House, Harlem, NY, 1898 (Photographs)
Another great photograph (above) by James Reuel Smith of a Well and House, 50 feet east of Amsterdam Avenue and 100 feet north of West 137th Street, New York, the two photographs were taken on April 9, 1898.Continue reading
House And Boy At Amsterdam Avenue And West 116th Street, NY 1898
Unidentified house on the Northeast corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 116th Street, in Harlem, New York, November 8, 1898, by Harlem photographer James Reuel Smith.Continue reading
The 119th Street Well In Harlem Farming Country, 1897 (Photo)
The 119th Street Well by James Reuel Smith, the Well was located 25 feet south of west 119th Street and 150 feet east of Amsterdam Avenue, NY, October 6, 1897.Continue reading
