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
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
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
Wooden Farm House On Broadway At West 123rd And 124th Streets, Harlem, NY, 1898
This is a great photograph looking northwest on the west side of Broadway between West 123rd and West 124th Streets, taken by James Reuel Smith in Harlem, NY, November 16, 1898. Continue reading
Little Boy At 149th Street Well, Harlem, New York, May 13, 1898.
Little Harlem boy with hat at Well photographed by James Reuel Smith below at the on the Hudson River shore and West 149th Street, Harlem, New York, May 13, 1898.
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Indian Spring, Amsterdam Avenue At 124th Street, Harlem, NY, 1898
Indian Spring and environs, on the southwest corner of Amsterdam Avenue and W. 124th Street, New York, November 16, 1898. Continue reading
Hand Pump Well At 139th Street, NY 1898 (Photograph)
At the turn of the century and before the Harlem Renaissance, there were places like this hand pump well (above) at the rear of a home at 147 West 139th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenue, NY, April 21, 1898 by NY photographer James Reuel Smith.Continue reading