Manhattan Time Machine New York City History to 1900

The collection

Two hundred plates
he gathered.

Engravings, lithographs, ward maps and photographs — pulled from the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, auction catalogues and second-hand books, and filed away over twenty years.

Arranged here by date, earliest first: the city from a Dutch tavern on the shoreline in 1650 to the steel towers of 1900.

Manhattan Time Machine — the work of William Anthony Miecuna, 1953–2026. Open the map →