The Streets of New York Play Poster
Posted on January 27, 2012, 7:00AM.
The Streets of New York from the well known play by Dion Boucicault. Created and published in Cleveland Ohio by Morgan Lithograph Company in 1913 as a 214.1 x 106.5 cm. chromolithograph.
Three panel motion picture poster for "The Streets of New York" showing, in the top and middle panels, three men in an office, an older man, "Fairweather" saying "Give me my money", is choking a young man as another young man looks on or rises to intercede; in the bottom panel, "Fairweather falls dead from heart disease", the two young men are kneeling over the body of "Fairweather."
Tags: Advertising, Collections, Death, Men, Play, Classic Posters
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Church, Southeastern U.S. #4
Posted on January 26, 2012, 7:42AM.
Church, Southeastern U.S. #4, photographed by Walker Evans in 1936 for the WPA on 8x10 nitrate negative.
Tags: Churches, Collections, Woodframe, Photography, Architecture, WPA Photographers, Walker Evans
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Burroughs' Fireplace, Hale County, Alabama
Posted on January 25, 2012, 7:21AM.
Fireplace in bedroom of Floyd Burroughs' cabin. Hale County, Alabama. Photographed by Walker Evans in 1935 or 1936 on 8x10 nitrate negatives.
There is an elaborate discussion about this image on the New York Times by Errol Morris as to Evans staging this and probably other photos.
Tags: Al, Alabama, Alarm Clock, Collections, Fireplace, Hale County, Photography, WPA Photographers, Walker Evans
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Street in Bethlehem. Pennsylvania
Posted on January 24, 2012, 7:53AM.
View down a main street photographed by Walker Evans, in November of 1935 on 8x10 film.
Tags: Bethlehem, Cars, Collections, Graveyard, PA, Pennsylvania, Street, Photography, WPA Photographers, Walker Evans
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Fireplace, Hale County, Alabama
Posted on January 23, 2012, 7:07AM.
Fireplace in Frank Tengle's home. Hale County, Alabama. Photographed by Walker Evans in 1935 or 1936 on 8x10 nitrate negative.
Tags: Alabama, Collections, Fireplace, Home, Photography, WPA Photographers, Walker Evans
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Skiers Relaxing in lodge at North Conway, New Hampshire
Posted on January 22, 2012, 7:41AM.
Skiers from Boston, Massachusetts, relaxing in lodge at North Conway, New Hampshire. Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in March of 1940.
Tags: Collections, Guitar, Men, New Hampshire, NH, Skiers, Women, Photography, Marion Post Wolcott
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Jitterbugging in Juke Joint, Mississippi
Posted on January 21, 2012, 7:32AM.
Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi. Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in November of 1939.
Tags: Clarksdale, Collections, Dancing, Juke Joint, Mississippi, Photography, Marion Post Wolcott, WPA Photographers
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Child Living in Oklahoma City Shacktown
Posted on January 20, 2012, 7:00AM.
Photographed by Dorothea Lange in August of 1936 on 2 1/4 nitrate film.
Tags: Child, Collections, Girls, Oklahoma, poverty, Photography, Dorothea Lange, WPA Photographers
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