(above) Bathers in Surf, Far Rockaway Beach, Queens, c. 1897 | Photographer: Byron Company

Photographer: Wurts Bros.

Trylon and Perisphere at the New York World’s Fair, Flushing Meadows, Queens, 1939.

Photographer: Samuel H. Gottscho

Alley Pond Park, Queens, 1936

The above images are among 68 currently on display in the exhibit “Parkcentric: Photos from the Museum of the City of New York, 1890-1940,” which features pictures of 24 different NYC parks. The archive photographs will be up at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park from June 14 through August 30.