Photography
Ranging from the earliest daguerrotypes of the 1850s through to modern photography, the photography collection at the Queens Historical Society is as wide-ranging as the borough itself. Before Queens County became a borough of the city of New York, there were the five townships of Jamaica, Flushing, Newtown, Hampstead and North Hampstead. When the time came, the three former opted to become a borough the city of the New York while the latter two chose to join the new county of Nassau. With this historical background firmly in mind, the Queens Historical Society has divided its photography collection by community to provide historically consistent representation to all the areas of Queens. The photographs in the collection explore the people, places and events that occured from approximately 1850 to the present day.

For a selective list of locations available in our collection and an online sampling of our photographs, click here.