New York Life at the Turn of the Century in Photographs

Joseph Byron

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9780486319407
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: North American History

Here are 120 wonderful vintage views from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Remarkable for clarity, definition and detail, the prints comprise a richly evocative portrait of turn-of-the-century life — street scenes, parks, restaurants, commercial interiors, Easter Parade, Blizzard of '99, Coney Island, a dinner for Mark Twain, etc. Informative text.

1. The Eastern Hotel, Whitehall Street, ca. 1906.

2. The Broadway Squad, Broadway and Fulton Street, ca. 1898.

3. Park Row 1895.

4. South Street, 1895.

5. Grand Theatre, 1905.

6. Hester Street, 1898.

7. Hester Street, 1898.

8. Hester Street, 1898.

9. Hester Street, 1898.

10. Fourth Avenue and East 14th Street, 1907.

11. Sixth Avenue, North from West 15th Street, 1895.

12. The Fifth Avenue Hotel, West 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue, ca. 1897.

13. The Fifth Avenue Hotel, 1896.

14. East 23rd Street, East from Fifth Avenue, 1898.

15. Broadway and West 28th Street, 1898.

16. Seventh Avenue and West 30th Street, 1904.

17. Seventh Avenu...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Contents
• Street Scenes
• Notes to the Plates