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 06/24/2008 09:16:44 AM · #26
yea. cool photo ... do you see Tesla, Stacy Keach and Headless (Horse)Man ?

:-))
 06/24/2008 09:57:52 AM · #27
Some New Yorker should go to 53641 Mulberry Street and take a picture from roughly the same angle, if it's still possible.
 06/24/2008 11:07:07 AM · #28
Originally posted by Louis:
Some New Yorker should go to 53641 Mulberry Street and take a picture from roughly the same angle, if it's still possible.


I was thinking the same thing! I'd love to see that.
 06/24/2008 11:26:45 AM · #29
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by Louis:
Nobody looks particularly happy... is there even one person smiling? (Not even the guy with the glass of beer.)


Actually, there's a kid at the very bottom, just right of center, under the kid holding the baby, who is smiling a rather sly smile ;-)

R.


Was that you Robert?
 06/24/2008 11:38:07 AM · #30
Very cool photo. I was thinking the same thing on what it looks like now. That address doesn't turn up though, the actual numbers nowadays go from (about) 1 to about 400. I've been searching on Google's Streetview for about an hour now, looking up and down the street at the buildings and this is close with the way the street curves to the left in the back, but not the buildings don't really match up. Granted, over that time span things would be remodeled or torn down perhaps, I dunno. With the shadows in the original photo, it appears it was taken looking the more northerly direction.

Message edited by author 2008-06-24 11:38:53.
 06/24/2008 12:56:50 PM · #31
It looked like Mulberry looking towards Canal Street and someone on another website posted similarly.
06/24/2008 01:56:01 PM · #32
Originally posted by butch81385:
It looked like Mulberry looking towards Canal Street and someone on another website posted similarly.


That can't be the same place. I don't see any chinese restaurants in the original, and where'd they go with the horses? :)
 06/24/2008 02:37:31 PM · #33
Originally posted by butch81385:
It looked like Mulberry looking towards Canal Street and someone on another website posted similarly.


We have a winner, congratulations! I was a little north of you in my original post. I did some super-sleuthing and looked for anything identifiable in that area that might have been around back then. Sorry, MS Paint is all I have at work away from home ;-), so bear with me. Check out the eve of the rooftop where circled. It has very unique blocky adornments underneath, in the same pattern.

[thumb]691485[/thumb] [thumb]691489[/thumb]

and a better view in Streetview:
[thumb]691486[/thumb]
 06/24/2008 02:59:14 PM · #34
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by Louis:
Nobody looks particularly happy... is there even one person smiling? (Not even the guy with the glass of beer.)


Actually, there's a kid at the very bottom, just right of center, under the kid holding the baby, who is smiling a rather sly smile ;-)

R.


Was that you Robert?


My brother, actually. He'd just pushed me out of the picture, the little snot...

R.
 06/24/2008 03:06:23 PM · #35
Originally posted by Telehubbie:
Originally posted by butch81385:
It looked like Mulberry looking towards Canal Street and someone on another website posted similarly.


We have a winner, congratulations! I was a little north of you in my original post. I did some super-sleuthing and looked for anything identifiable in that area that might have been around back then. Sorry, MS Paint is all I have at work away from home ;-), so bear with me. Check out the eve of the rooftop where circled. It has very unique blocky adornments underneath, in the same pattern.

[thumb]691485[/thumb] [thumb]691489[/thumb]

and a better view in Streetview:
[thumb]691486[/thumb]


Not bad. Now get out there with a camera and re-stage the entire shot.
 06/24/2008 03:21:20 PM · #36
Originally posted by Fromac:


Not bad. Now get out there with a camera and re-stage the entire shot.


How about a huge DPC get together with everybody acting it out? Nobody push Robert out of the frame in this one though. :-)
 06/24/2008 03:53:23 PM · #37
Originally posted by Telehubbie:
Originally posted by Fromac:


Not bad. Now get out there with a camera and re-stage the entire shot.


How about a huge DPC get together with everybody acting it out? Nobody push Robert out of the frame in this one though. :-)


We can get the people, no problem, but the wagons and the horses and the foodstuffs? I see some logistical nightmares on the horizon :-)

R.
 06/24/2008 03:55:18 PM · #38
Originally posted by Telehubbie:
Originally posted by Fromac:


Not bad. Now get out there with a camera and re-stage the entire shot.


How about a huge DPC get together with everybody acting it out? Nobody push Robert out of the frame in this one though. :-)


Actually he would take the picture since he should remember how he took it the first time.
 06/24/2008 04:56:52 PM · #39
Originally posted by Bear_Music:


We can get the people, no problem, but the wagons and the horses and the foodstuffs? I see some logistical nightmares on the horizon :-)

R.


I could check out the Prop Dept at Warner Bros, then borrow a one of their 5 tons and drive it all out. Easy peasy. :-) Might need a permit in NY though, nevermind.

06/24/2008 05:55:27 PM · #40
Originally posted by Telehubbie:
Originally posted by butch81385:
It looked like Mulberry looking towards Canal Street and someone on another website posted similarly.


We have a winner, congratulations! I was a little north of you in my original post. I did some super-sleuthing and looked for anything identifiable in that area that might have been around back then. Sorry, MS Paint is all I have at work away from home ;-), so bear with me. Check out the eve of the rooftop where circled. It has very unique blocky adornments underneath, in the same pattern.

[thumb]691485[/thumb] [thumb]691489[/thumb]

and a better view in Streetview:
[thumb]691486[/thumb]

I really think that's it. The window rows, building heights, and cornices all seem to match up on both sides of the street. Cool. Here's a link to the spot. The two matched buildings are on the east side of the street.

Message edited by author 2008-06-24 17:55:51.
 06/24/2008 06:06:42 PM · #41
Originally posted by Telehubbie:


We have a winner, congratulations! I was a little north of you in my original post. I did some super-sleuthing and looked for anything identifiable in that area that might have been around back then. Sorry, MS Paint is all I have at work away from home ;-), so bear with me. Check out the eve of the rooftop where circled. It has very unique blocky adornments underneath, in the same pattern.

[thumb]691485[/thumb] [thumb]691489[/thumb]

and a better view in Streetview:
[thumb]691486[/thumb]


Thanks. What do I win? :p

I found it during my lunch hour at work. I went "driving" down Mulberry Street multiple times, each time looking for a significant architectural feature from one of the buildings. The building that gave it away for me was the building on the opposite side of Canal Street on the left hand side. While some of the molding has been removed on the side, the same overhang, line of bricks between the 2nd and 3rd floors, and most importantly window size and layout was there. Once I found that it was pretty clear to me.
 06/24/2008 06:32:29 PM · #42
Definitely the right spot... if you look in the photo there is a sign that says "Banca Malzone"... if you Google it, this comes from one of the results. 88 Mulberry coincides with the location butch81385 listed.

Malzone owned the Banca Malzone, a small bank, travel agency and wine shop at 88 Mulberry Street, He provided money changing, postal services, travel services by ship or rail, and imported Italian wines. Many such banks peppered the Italian colony and assisted illiterate immigrants with letter writing and legal matters. At 88 Mulberry, Fausto installed the last known headquarters of the Circolo Filodrammatico.
 06/24/2008 06:42:11 PM · #43
It's funny that the Detroit Photography Co took this picture in NY. And it's copyright 1900. Very interesting.

Mike
 06/24/2008 09:24:46 PM · #44
I like the kid drinking a pint of draft in the middle of the street.
 06/25/2008 12:40:28 PM · #45
Originally posted by MikeJ:
It's funny that the Detroit Photography Co took this picture in NY. And it's copyright 1900. Very interesting.

Mike


Detroit Photographic Company, later known as Detroit Publishing Company, was actually quite the roving business from 1820 to 1920 or thereabouts. Library of Congress has their collections now, well worth a look. From Wki:

The Detroit Publishing Company was an American photographic publishing firm best known for its large assortment of photochrom color postcards.

The company was founded as the Detroit Photographic Company in the 1890s by Detroit businessman and publisher William A. Livingstone, Jr., and photographer and photo-publisher Edwin H. Husher. The company had the exclusive rights to the photochrom process for the American market. Photochrom is a technique developed in Zürich, Switzerland, which allows the color enhancement of black-and white photography with the means of chromolithography. It allowed the company to mass-produce photorealistic color motifs long before color photography became economically feasible. The company specialized on postcards of American and European subjects, including cityscapes, reproductions of artwork, natural landmarks and folklore.

The best-known photographer for the company was William Henry Jackson, who joined the company in 1897. he became the plant manager in 1903, and in 1905 the company changed its name. By the time of World War I, the company faced declining sales both due to the war economy and the competition from cheaper, more advanced printing methods. The company declared bankruptcy in 1924 and was liquidated in 1932.

Most of the existing negatives and prints are now housed by the United States Library of Congress, which received them via the Edison Institute and the Colorado Historical Society in 1949. Most images are visible in digital form at the Library of Congress Web site.

Library of Congress link

R.

Message edited by author 2008-06-25 12:41:12.
 06/25/2008 01:57:09 PM · #46
Cool photo, but too grainy. :-p

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