Scenes Central Park (4 results)

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. J. Durkin (illustrator). 1st. full page scene of family sailing in the park on a famous 'Swan-boat' with others in the foreground waving to them; one page suitable for framing; lite marginal foxing Size: 10.5" x 15.5".

Condition: Good. 6.5" x 10" Very Good. [Hand colored engraving].Mounted on mat board.

A marvelous collection of chromolithographic views of New York City's Central Park, issued by the renowned firm of Louis Prang and Company. In 1864, Prang issued numerous series of cards, often showing nature scenes, and meant to be collected and tipped into albums. Among these series, the present series of thirty-six views of Central Park is one of the rarest. When these cards were issued, Central Park was still a new attraction in New York City. In 1857 a competition had been announced to submit designs for the park, and the winning entry was the "Greensward Plan" submitted by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The park opened later in 1857. This collection contains views of some of the most famous places in the park, including The Ramble and the Boat Landing. The scenes in this collection are: 1) "The Island." 2) "The Rustic Bridge." 3) "Entrance to Cave." 4) "The Lake." 5) "Rustic Arbor." 6) "The Brook." 7) "Moonlight on the Lake." 8) "Cascade." 9) "The Arch." 10) "The Ramble." 11) "Boat Landing." 12) "Marble Bridge Over the Lake." 13) "Rude Stairway." 14) "Abode of the Swans." 15) "The Silver Lake." 16) "Entrance to Cave From the Lake." 17) "The Tower." 18) "Ornamental Bridge." 19) "The Drive." 20) "The Bridle Path." 21) "The Music Temple." 22) "Sunset on the Lake." 23) "Rustic Arbor." 24) "A Glimpse of the Lake." 25) "The Marble Bridge." 26) "Vine Arbor." 27) "Bust of Schiller." 28) "The Fountain." 29) "On the Ramble, near the Lake." 30) "Fancy Bridge No. 14." 31) "The Casino." 32) "Bridge at the 7th Avenue Entrance." 33) "The Cove." 34) "Rustic Bower." 35) "Rustic Arbor." 36) "Evening on the Lake." Prang followed the present three series of Central Park views with another two series issued in 1869. Any of the cards in the Central Park series are among the rarest of Prang cards. With the Central Park series is another early Prang series, depicting street scenes and characters of New York. These charming images capture the spirit of the metropolis at the beginning of the Gilded Age. They are: 1) "Street Musician." 2) "The Drum Major." 3) "Emigrants Just Arrived." 4) "Muddy Street." 5) "The Fruit Pedlar." 6) "The Old Coin Merchant." 7) "The Street Singers." 8) "Walking Advertisement Balloon Seller." 9) "The Convoy Over Broadway." 10) "On Broadway." 11) "French Nurse." 12) "Newspaper Boy 'Tribune Sir?'" An amusing collection of images of the sort of people who would have been found in Central Park in the 1860s. Central Park: Thirty-six chromolithographic cards, each 4¼ x 2½ inches. Tipped to three album sheets. Street Scenes: Twelve chromolithographic cards, each 4¼ x 2½ inches, tipped to matching album sheet. Light soiling or foxing to a few images. Near fine.

None. Condition: None. Ca. 163 original gelatin silver photographs and real photo postcards (mostly mounted on loose cardboards) from ca. 17,8x22,8 cm (7 x 9 in) to ca. 6,8x4,9 cm (2 ½ x 2 in). Ca. 30 photos with English captions or dates on the mounts (either in manuscript or typewritten text); with one identification badge of a newborn ca. 3,5x7,2 cm (2 ¾ x 1 ¼ in). Several photos detached, one photo lacking a small fragment at the margin, one photo with a horizontal fold mark, and one photo with small fragments at the lower right corner attached by scotch tape, but otherwise a very good collection of strong photos. Historically interesting archive of lively, vernacular photographs and real photo postcards related to the New York-based Ukrainian and Belarusian Jewish families of Yurowsky and Rothstein. From 1881 to 1917, the United States experienced its largest wave of immigration. Following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, blamed by many on the Jews, a series of violent pogroms erupted across the Russian Empire. With official tolerance and new restrictive laws, these attacks devastated over 160 towns, leaving thousands of Jewish families impoverished. As a result, more than two million Jews emigrated to the United States, over one million settling in New York. The compilers' family appears to have left during this period, seeking safety from widespread anti-Jewish violence. According to the captions, the archive belonged to the family of Ukrainian and Belarusian Jews Jacob Yurowsky (ca. 1886-1962) and Lillian Rothstein (ca. 1888-1961). Jacob's parents, Louis Yourowsky (ca. 1858-?) and Yetta Yourowsky (ca. 1860-?), emigrated to the United States in 1896, leaving their children with relatives in Ukraine. Born in Zhitomir, Jacob eventually joined his parents in America in 1905, arriving amidst the First Russian Revolution and anti-Jewish pogroms. In 1917, he married Lillian, who had emigrated from Belarus with most of her siblings. The couple first lived in Manhattan before later settling in the Bronx, where they raised their son, Morton Yourowsky (ca. 1919-2006). U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records (1938-1946) indicate that Morton graduated from Utica College and worked as a pressman and plate printer prior to his military service in the World War II. The collection contains over 163 lively vernacular photographs and real photo postcards mostly taken and collected in New York. The earliest photographs in the archive apparently date to 1902-1903 and were produced in the pioneer Minsk studios of Osip Bernstein and L. Rosowski. These portraits likely capture Lillian's sisters, Sonia and Minnie, prior to the family's emigration from Belarus. Importantly, the archive includes at least fifty excellent cabinet photographs of the Yourowsky family and their relatives, taken at early, lesser-known New York studios. Most of the photographs identify the specific photographer or studio, frequently providing the studio address printed directly on the mount. Among these are excellent images from People's Photo Gallery at 45 Canal Street; Spachner & Berger on 12th Avenue in the Lower East Side, M. Robbins at 49 Canal Street; H. R. Trachtenberg at 62 Avenue C; and Isidor Yog at 45 Canal Street - the latter of whom was a noted Jewish anarchist associated with the Yiddish theatre community. The collection further contains work from Wolfson's Art Gallery at 399 Grand Street and the Farb Photo Studio at 1535 Madison Avenue. The rest of the photographs were taken outdoors and show the daily life of the Ukrainian and Belarusian Jewish diaspora in 1920s-1930s New York. The images mostly portray Yurowsky family members and their Jewish relatives posing at the beach, on balconies, in natural settings and city streets, on horseback, at Coney Island, in their yard, in Central Park, at a Jewish cemetery in New York, and in Burbank, California. The collection also contains at least three real photo postcards with Russian and Ukrainian inscriptions on the verso, sent from immediate relatives in Ukraine to Lillian, and an infant identification band from Morton's birth in 1919. Overall, historically interesting archive of over 165 original gelatin silver photographs and real photo postcards related to the family of New York-based Ukrainian and Belarusian Jews who fled the anti-Jewish pogroms of the Russian Empire.