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In a crowded street between tenement buildings, street vendors line the street. Vignette views depict storefronts, vendors, and a social gathering on a street corner, possibly around a photographer.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-15
In a crowded outdoor scene, possibly in “Times” Square, Japanese paper lanterns are hanging and almost everyone is wearing Japanese-style clothing. Among the porters, street vendors, and street railroad conductors are depicted Jay “Gould,” H. O. “Thompson,” Charles A. “Dana,” Whitelaw “Reid,” Benjamin F. Butler, “Bergh,” Elizabeth Cady “Stanton,” Joseph “Pulitzer,” Samuel J. “Tilden,” Thomas De Witt “Talmage,” William M. “Evarts,” and “Grace, Murray, [and] Barrett,” and Marcus “Daly,” along with Puck holding his lithographic pencil.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1886-01-13
A steely-faced young man drives an automobile, looking straight ahead. A beautiful young woman snuggles next to him, looking up at him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1915-01-02
At center, an effeminate Santa Claus stands in front of a fireplace where stockings are hanging. His bag of toys is on the floor nearby. He considers taking the stockings “for the Belgians.” The surrounding vignettes show scenes depicting the “knitting craze”: a chess player knits while waiting for his opponent to make a move; a society woman knits while walking the dog, with a servant following her to carry the yarn on a tray; a man knits while sitting in the bathtub, the only free time he has; passengers and a conductor knit while riding on a streetcar; a boxer drops a stitch when caught off guard by the gong; and a drunkard tells his wife “No, my dear, I wash tnitting at the tlub.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-12-26
Two winter scenes are depicted with a verse by Breton Braley printed between them. On the left is “The Christmas Coach” showing a stagecoach with passengers riding on top, with a crescent moon and winter spirits in the night sky. On the right is “The Spirit of the Snow” showing the Snow Spirit spreading snow over a city at night with a church in the background. Each half of the spread includes a remarque at the bottom signed with monogram (E within a box) and showing a 19th century farmhouse and a church.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-12-19
A bird’s-eye view of Mott Street in Chinatown, New York City, shows street life and buildings. Vignettes depict Chinese people engaged in various activities that characterize daily life in Chinatown. Caption: The rest of New York moves, but Chinatown stays.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-11-28
Four elderly men and two elderly women watch a fashionably dressed young woman as she walks down the sidewalk.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-10-15
A beautiful young woman poses for a group of wide-eyed male photographers. Caption: But remember, there is some Great Scenery around Broadway and Forty-Second Street in the Summer time.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-08-13
An automobile driver tries to negotiate workmen in the roadway, children playing ball in the street and darting in front of automobiles, absentminded pedestrians stepping off the curb, and people exiting streetcars into oncoming traffic. Includes a lengthy caption about the hazards an automobile driver faces on city streets.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-01-29
A city sidewalk is crowded with women who are denied entry to upscale shops. An old woman labeled “Necessity” creates a maelstrom that drives many of the women to seek shelter where they can, which happens to be a brightly illuminated building topped with a “$” where the Devil is sitting, waiting for them. Caption: It is not inclination, but necessity, that drives the underpaid shop-girl to the Devil.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-12-11
Four toll-takers labeled “Retailer’s Profit, Commission Broker’s Profit, Rail Road’s Profit, [and] Express Company’s Profit” stand on a bridge spanning a small waterway that separates the rural “Producer” on the right from the city “Consumer” on the left. Flying overhead is an airplane labeled “Parcels Post.” Caption: If you don’t like it, you know what you can do.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-12-13
On the left, pedestrians and people in and on top of buildings look with amazement at an airplane flying over a city. On the right, citizens no longer take notice of all the airplanes crowding the sky above the city. Caption: As it was a year or two ago / As it may be a year or two from now.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-08-23
One large hand, labeled “City Tradesman,” has grabbed a family of four from another large hand, labeled “Country Hotel Keeper.” Caption: “Let go there! Give me a chance at ’em! You had ’em all Summer!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-09-20