15 Instagram accounts for New York history buffs
'15.10.2019'
Source: NY Curbed
Instagram has many accounts that open modern New York to us, but there are also those that allow you to take a walk into the past while enjoying vintage photos of the city. This publication writes NY Curbed.
Here are 15 of the best accounts for New York history buffs that offer you old maps, images of old buildings, vintage photos of the subway, and all of the above.
The oldest historical museum of the city also has a wonderful Instagram account. Here you will find many historical facts about New York, looking straight from its archives. In addition, here you can see the current and upcoming exhibits of the museum.
If you like old maps, photographs and educational materials telling about the past of New York - here you are. For example, one of the photographs depicts an officer of the Port Authority, who probably kept order in the Lincoln Tunnel, circling the territory in a small car that moved along the wall.
Urban Archive
This account is an Urban Archive app where users can find out where to find truly fascinating historical sites in New York. Instagram page is full of photos of old New York. For example, here you can find photographs in which a street from a vintage postcard is compared with the same street in real time.
Big Onion Walking Tours
Big Onion Walking Tours' Instagram account is not just a repository of old photos, but a place to find out bizarre historical facts that you can show off at a party, the source notes.
New York Public Library
You will never be able to view all the treasures in the NYPL archives, but fortunately Instagram has a library account that shows some of these magnificent finds, including sketches, photographs, letters and maps.
NYPL Maps
If you like the New York Public Library account, you will certainly enjoy NYPL Maps, which is dedicated to all cartographic things. However, in addition to posts with city maps, they also talk about key moments in the evolution of the five districts of the city.
young_gotham
This Instagram page is about New York until 1840. Here, fans of the 19 century architecture will find everything that so captivates them. Moreover, the information is presented in the context: in order to demonstrate old photographs, historical buildings are shown in their current, preserved condition.
Retro new york
Unlike young_gotham, the photos in this account are from the 20 century and show the rapid changes that have occurred in the city over the past 100 years.
New York City: Then and Now
As the name implies, this page is entirely devoted to old photographs of New York streets in comparison with their modern look. NYC Department of Records
History buffs will definitely appreciate this page on a social network.
The account is managed by city archivists, and it is mainly devoted to old photographs. Here, as in many of the pages mentioned above, the scenes of old New York are compared with its modern incarnation.
New York Transit Museum
This page will appeal to railway fans. It tells about the present and past systems of the city metro, there are many photographs of old railway cars, as well as announcements about the metro and stations of that time.
Discovering NYC
Here, looking at old photographs, you can also be at a history lesson. Each photo in this Instagram account, created by a New York historian and guide, is accompanied by a signature that contains a small background about the depicted place or object.
Brooklyn Historical Society
The city’s main historical institution has an Instagram account with photos, prints and other “ghosts from the past” that tell the story of Kings County.
Museum of the City of New York
This is another museum account that also offers archives for search. The museum usually focuses on the exhibition, which is taking place at the moment, according to the publication.
Bowery boys
This is one of the best history podcasts that also has an Instagram account covering old-time New York. There are both old photographs and images of places that are of historical interest to the entire city, the source notes.
