New York (State)--New York--Times Square

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-20

Creator(s)

Holbrook, Franklin F. (Franklin Fessenden), 1837-1916

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Language

English

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1886-01-13

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894