Broadway at Night Looking North from Thirty-fourth Street.

Herald Square (New York, N.Y.)

Jefferys, Charles W. (Charles William), 1869-1951.

Theaters--New York (State)--New York.

Broadway Tabernacle (New York, N.Y.)

Railroads, Elevated--New York (State)--New York.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

This is a vibrant reproduction of a color print by Canadian-born artist Charles William Jefferys (1869-1951) who once worked at the New York Herald. The Broadway Tabernacle Church, the 6th Avenue elevated train, the Herald Building and several theatres, including Koster & Bial's, are depicted. The streets are teaming with cable cars, horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

E. Idell Zeisloft, ed., The New Metropolis (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1899), 492.

ca. 1899

C. W. Jeffreys

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Prints

Broadway and 34th Street

A Dire Perplexity - Settling with the Cabby. Scene at the entrance to the Thirty-fourth Street Ferry during the racing season.

Ferries--New York (State)--New York.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

Horse-drawn vehicles--New York (State)--New York.

Two beautifully dressed young women wearing opulent hats standing next to a horse drawn carriage and seem to be in the midst of working out the payment of their fare.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

E. Idell Zeisloft, ed., The New Metropolis (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1899), 629.

ca. 1899

Unknown

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Photographs

34th Street

Watching the Great Presses of the New York Herald. A familiar night scene at Thirty-fifth Street and Broadway.

New York herald tribune.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

A crowd of fashionable pedestrians peering through the windows of the New York Herald Building; there is a news boy behind the crowd trying to get a glimpse.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

E. Idell Zeisloft, ed., The New Metropolis (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1899), 404.

ca. 1899

G. A. Travers

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Prints

Broadway and 35th Street