Do old photographs interest you? I am very interested in them myself, so I have decided to do a small photographic review of New York City in the early years of the 20th century. Hope you enjoy the photographs as much as I did.
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Photograph Descriptions:
1. A group of actors line up at 45 Street during a strike in 1919.
2. A crowd stops street cars during a strike in 1916.
3. Garment workers parade in 1916.
4. Yes its hard to believe but even the barbers were on strike in 1913.
5. Soldiers marching down Broadway in 1917.
6. A crowd walking on Wall Street in 1911.
7. A crowd waiting to get into the morgue containing the bodies from the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire in 1911.
8. 1917 reception of Prince of Udine. He passed by the Washington Arch.
9.Crowd gathered around exit at Pennsylvania Station in New York City awaiting the arrival of Billy Sunday. Photo taken 1917.
10. Children sledding in Central Park in 1914.
11. Brooklyn marathon
1909.
12. As hard as it is to imagine today, this huge crowd was watching a baseball scoreboard in 1911.
13. Subway construction at Broadway and 38th Street. Year unknown.
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Five boys at New Year's celebration, Chinatown, New York City, 1911.
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Woman holding a small child and a box of Wrigley's Spearmint gum, in
front of a building on Broadway in New York City; pedestrians on
sidewalk in background,1909.
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Children and adults seated on trolley for fresh air outing in June, 1913.
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Chang Singx [i.e., Chong Sing] arriving in New York, 6/22/09.
18. Baseball game between two teams that no longer exist. The teams were the New York Nationals and the New York Americans. The game took place in 1910.
19. Clerks take a break on the roof of the Metropolitan Life Building sometime around 1915.
20. Blind man creating toys, 1915.
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Piles of garbage on street outside markets during garbage collectors' strike in New York City, 1911.
22. Testing a safety device for street cars in 1908.
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Horse-drawn fire engines in street, on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, 1911.
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Anarchists - casualties of anarchist riot, Union Square. Taken 20 seconds after bomb thrown.
1908.
There is so much history in these old photos. For example, I wonder how many people today know what country Udine was or who Chang Singx was or even for that matter, that bombs were going off in New York City in 1908? Udine is in Italy, it isn't a country.
Udine stands at the centre of the Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia in a
favoured geographical position, on the internanonal route which links up the south and
the north-east of Europe. The earliest mention of Udine can be found in a document dating back to 983. As for Chang Singx, if I ever find out I will let you know.
