Eleanor Butler Alexander at a street vendor
Eleanor Butler Roosevelt drinking milk at Fontainebleau.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-1897
Your TR Source
Street vendors
A strong tip
Two boys talk on a busy city sidewalk next to a produce stand. Caption: Messenger — I didn’t do a t’ing but win a dollar an’ t’irty-two cents at craps, las’ night. / Bucket-Shop Office Boy — Put it all on Cotton, Billy, an’ stand fer a raise uv fifteen p’ints – I heerd de boss tellin’ a come-on ter sell short!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-04-06
Street Bakery, Smyrna, Turkey
Colorized postcard of two vendors at a street bakery in Smyrna. Baked goods are displayed on a makeshift table in front of the vendors. Text on the reverse describes the round cake and bread sold at these bakeries.
Collection
Creation Date
Unknown
Creator(s)
Filipino Store Keeper, Manila, Philippines
Colorized postcard of a shop keeper in front of his produce stand in Manila. A variety of produce, including plantains and corn, is on display in the stand.
Collection
Creation Date
Unknown
Creator(s)
Xmas greens
On the left is a street vendor selling Christmas greens. On the right is a poem by H. A. Crowell titled “Greens to Sell,” and an interior scene with a young man kissing a young woman beneath mistletoe hanging in a doorway.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1897-12-29
Creator(s)
What he wants to see, be gosh!
Print shows a “Hayseed Legislator” standing on the sidewalk of “Fifth Ave.” in New York City, pointing his umbrella toward a tenement house labeled “The Vanderbilt Flats Formerly the Marble Palace.” On Fifth Avenue there are street urchins, a hurdy-gurdy man with a monkey, a fruit vendor, and a man picking through the trash. Seen through windows on the ground floor of the tenement house are a woman using a sewing machine and a Chinese laundry. On the rooftop, a woman is hanging clothes on a clothesline. Caption: The New York up-country legislator will never be satisfied until he has taxed the millionaire out of the state.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-10-26
Creator(s)
Summer days on New York’s east side
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.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1914-08-15
Creator(s)
Our Japanese village
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)
Squeezed dry
John Kelly, dressed as an old woman street vendor, sits at “Mrs. J. Kelly Political Fruit Stand,” selling “N.Y. Patronage Lemonade.” He has tossed to the gutter a lemon labeled “Edson” that shows the face of former Mayor of New York City, Franklin Edson. Whitelaw Reid leans around a corner at the end of the produce stand, where a notice has been pasted on the wall that states “City Hall Theatre. Passion Play. Judas – Edson.” Caption: A lemon that will never more contribute to the patronage bowl.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1884-12-17
Creator(s)
Set a — to catch a —
Print shows a policeman labeled “Gov. Foster” grabbing the arm of a diminutive man labeled “Hoadly” who is holding a piece of fruit labeled “Dem. Nomination 83” that he has stolen from a street vendor who is an old woman labeled “Ohio Democracy” knitting behind her table of fruit labeled “Nomination Appointment Office.” Papers extending from the pocket of the policeman are labeled “Indiana ‘Soap’ Campaign 1880” and “Theft of the Presidency 1877.” Caption: Honest Charley Foster is horrified to find Hoadly filching.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1883-08-08
Creator(s)
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913