A few nice change background image images I found:
Manhattan Skyline: I. South Street and Jones Lane, Manhattan...
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 482569. Manhattan Skyline: I. South Street and Jones Lane, Manhattan.. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. March 26, 1936
Notes: Code: I.D. Looking from pier toward Manhattan, tugboats moored left, Downtown Skyport, right, skyscrapers in the background.
Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
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Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?482569
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Fulton Street Fish Market, Manhattan.
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 482810. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. June 18, 1936
Notes: Code: II.C.a. Exhibited: Modern Vision #85 Men move crates and barrels of fish in front of the Fulton Market building, skyscrapers rising in the background.
Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?482810
Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
Bush pilot (high speed)
Image by Unhindered by Talent
The background on the previous image bugged me. It wasn't sharp, but it wasn't quite blurred enough to be interesting. A little too much time in Photoshop changed all that, however :-).
