- The Browning Photograph Collection contains photographs produced primarily in the 1920s and 1930s by Irving Browning and his commercial photography firm in and around New York City. The varied subject matter, which includes street life during the Great Depression and the construction of Art Deco skyscrapers, reflects the social and economic realities of the time period while also showcasing Browning's technical and aesthetic brilliance.
- The Frederick Kelly Photograph Collection spans the period from 1959-1976 and contains 250 black and white silver gelatin photographs, primarily taken in New York City. Frederick Kelly (1905-1999) lived in Baltimore, MD, where he worked as a librarian and an educator. His interests included photography, and he enjoyed traveling to New York City in his later years to photograph the vibrant city's buildings and people. Kelly appears to have been interested in the myriad different characters that mark the fabric of urban life. Most of the photographs are candid; the subjects do not appear to have known their picture was being taken. In general, this quality lends these photographs a documentary air, and allows the views of the city to appear lived in and fresh.
- Album of photographs produced by the Education and Recreation District Office of the Work Projects Administration, New York City, in 1938. The photographs depict children and adults engaged in educational and recreational activities as part of various city programs, including the Child Nutrition Program, the Recreation Program for Pre-School Age Children, the Recreational Day Camp Program, the Adult Education Program, the New Reading Materials Program, the Program for Handicapped Children, the Remedial Reading Program, the Field Activities Program, the Community Center Program, the Elementary School Activities Program, the Objective Teaching Materials Project, the Recreational Agencies Program, the Nursery School Program, the Recreation Truant Program, the Street and Play Center Program, and the Adjustment Program for Problem Cases. Title from cover. "Mary C. Tinney" stamped at lower right of cover. Gift of Work Projects Administration, March 26, 1943., New-York Historical Society