Flowers in a window at 326 East 61st Street, New York City, 1938, by Walker Evans, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
I really wish Evans had turned a little to the left and given us the other window as well.
Tag: New York City
Vintage landscape: Barclay Street
“Cut Christmas trees [at the] market in front of Barclay Street Station, New York, N.Y.,” between 1885 and 1895, by Detroit Publishing Company, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The station was part of the IRT Ninth Avenue elevated railway line and was located at Barclay and Greenwich Streets, north of today’s Six World Trade Center. It closed with the rest of the line in 1940.
O
fury-
bedecked!
O glitter-torn!
Let the wild wind erect
bonbonbonanzas; junipers affect
frostyfreeze turbans; iciclestuff adorn. . .— George Starbuck, from “Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas tree“
Life in gardens: fall flower show
. . . at P.S. 15, Manhattan, New York City, ca. 1921, by Paul & Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
This hand-colored glass lantern slide was used by Frances Benjamin Johnston in her garden lecture series.
The original black and white photo may have been taken for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Its online photo collection has several 1921 pictures of P.S. 15 and P.S. 62 children working in their “nature rooms.”
The Sunday porch: New York City
Awning-covered back terrace of the Murray house, 129 East 69th Street, New York City, 1922. Hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
This looks so pleasant, but I also like the view in the other direction.
Looking from the terrace to the sandbox, same house, photographer, and source.
What a nice-looking small outdoor space for both the parents and a child. (For grass, they had Central Park only three blocks away.)
According to the Library’s online catalogue, this garden was designed by Clarence Fowler. It was awarded the second prize for a city garden at the 1922 City Gardens Club of New York City photography exhibition at the New York Camera Club. Today, the house and garden no longer exist.
Johnston used these slides in her lectures on city and suburban gardens.
The flower sellers, Union Square
Buying Easter flowers, Union Square, New York City, April 18, 1908 (the Saturday before Easter) by Bains News Service, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Things look pretty calm in these pictures, but only a week and a half before, on March 28, the park was the scene of a demonstration by the unemployed and then a bombing, which killed the bomber and a bystander.
Since 1976, Union Square has been the site of a thriving greenmarket (every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday), which includes flower sellers.
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