new york city at the turn of the 20 th century chapter 9 impact of industrialization section 1
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New York City at the turn of New York City at the turn of the 20the 20thth Century Century
Chapter 9
Impact of Industrialization
Section 1
West St., 1885West St., 1885
Herald Sq., 1888. 6th Ave. El. Herald Sq., 1888. 6th Ave. El.
Terminal, 1892. Alfred Stieglitz. Terminal, 1892. Alfred Stieglitz.
Winter, 1893. Stieglitz. Winter, 1893. Stieglitz.
Broadway, 1894 Broadway, 1894
Herald Sq., 1895 Herald Sq., 1895
Lower Broadway, 1899. Lots of Lower Broadway, 1899. Lots of hats.hats.
Police Parade, 1899. Bowler hats, Police Parade, 1899. Bowler hats, hardly any women.hardly any women.
Tiffany’s, Union Sq., 1899. Early car Tiffany’s, Union Sq., 1899. Early car and some figures added by artist.and some figures added by artist.
Getting a ticket, 1900Getting a ticket, 1900
Easter, Fifth Avenue, 1900.One Easter, Fifth Avenue, 1900.One car visible, coming towards car visible, coming towards
foreground.foreground.
Hester St., Hester St., Lower Lower
East Side, East Side, 1901.1901.
Flatiron, 1903. Burnham.Flatiron, 1903. Burnham.
Broad St., Broad St., 1904. Stock 1904. Stock Exchange Exchange
and Federal and Federal Hall.Hall.
Municipal Municipal Building Building
under under construction, construction, 1904. McKim. 1904. McKim.
No cars.No cars.
The Belmont Coach, 1905, four The Belmont Coach, 1905, four horses. Dogs run free.horses. Dogs run free.
Easter, Easter, Fifth Fifth Ave., Ave., 1906. 1906.
No cars. No cars.
City Hall subway, 1907. Turkish City Hall subway, 1907. Turkish head houseshead houses
Lower East Side, 1908.Lower East Side, 1908.
Herald Herald Square, Square,
1909. 1909. Skyscraper Skyscraper beyond is beyond is NY Times NY Times
Building in Building in Times Sq. Times Sq. Cars have Cars have replaced replaced horses.horses.
Automatic Vaudeville, Union Sq., Automatic Vaudeville, Union Sq., 1910.1910.
Downtown skyline with Singer Downtown skyline with Singer Building., 1910. World’s tallest.Building., 1910. World’s tallest.
Downtown skyline with Downtown skyline with Woolworth Building., 1913. Woolworth Building., 1913.
World’s tallest.World’s tallest.
Birdseye, 1913, with artist’s Birdseye, 1913, with artist’s enhancement. Hand colored.enhancement. Hand colored.
Control, 1918. Machine guns in front, Control, 1918. Machine guns in front, modified phalanx. Soldiers on sides modified phalanx. Soldiers on sides
assigned to upstairs windows. assigned to upstairs windows. Wilson feared antiwar riots.Wilson feared antiwar riots.
Times Times Square Square
from New from New York York
Times Times Building., Building.,
1922.1922.
HMS Leviathan and Singer HMS Leviathan and Singer Building., 1923.Building., 1923.
Fifth Ave., 1924. Buses and taxis Fifth Ave., 1924. Buses and taxis on parade.on parade.
Building Building the Empire the Empire State, 1930. State, 1930. Lewis Hine.Lewis Hine.
Liberty, Liberty, 1930. 1930. With With
symbols.symbols.
Midtown’s lineup of spires with Midtown’s lineup of spires with sky in between, 1931.sky in between, 1931.
Six engines! 1931.Six engines! 1931.
Tropical Drinks Five Cents, 1932 Tropical Drinks Five Cents, 1932
Subway Subway execs inspect execs inspect new subway new subway
car, 1933. car, 1933. Breakthrough Breakthrough
blowers blowers ventilate with ventilate with
windows windows closed! Cane closed! Cane
seats.seats.
Fifth Avenue Fifth Avenue bus in bus in
Washington Washington Square.Square.
Park Ave. and 39th.Park Ave. and 39th.
Oyster House, South Street, under Oyster House, South Street, under Manhattan Bridge, with pile of oyster Manhattan Bridge, with pile of oyster
shells.shells.
Arm Arm wrestling wrestling
in Harlem.in Harlem.
Nightclub in HarlemNightclub in Harlem
The Fashionable People The Fashionable People [harassed by the homeless]. [harassed by the homeless].
Weegee, 1943.Weegee, 1943.
Murder in Hell’s Kitchen. Murder in Hell’s Kitchen. Weegee, 1944.Weegee, 1944.
Coney IslandConey Island
Hole where Hole where plane (B-25) plane (B-25) hit Empire hit Empire
State State Building, Building,
1945.1945.
Homeless man sleeping on the Homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk.sidewalk.