Underwood & Underwood NYC

20258.

Looking N.E. over the curve of the Manhattan Elevated Railway at 110th St. (60 ft. high), New York.

20259.

New York’s greatest shopping district and elevated railway – Sixth Avenue from 18th St.

20260.

Looking along the Bridge from Brooklyn to New York.

20261.

Herald Square, junction of Broadway and Sixth Avenue, north, showing Herald Building and Elevated Railway, N.Y. City.

20262.

14058. The beautiful Hall of Fame, N.Y. University, New York. The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is an outdoor sculpture gallery located on the grounds of Bronx Community College in the Bronx, New York City. It is the first such hall of fame in the United States. Completed in 1900 as part of the University Heights campus of New York University, the 630-foot stone colonnade half-encircles the university library and houses 98 bronze portrait busts of a number of prominent Americans. Designed by architect Stanford White (who also designed the library), the Beaux Arts structure was donated by Helen Gould, and was formally dedicated on May 30, 1901. New York University (under severe financial distress) was forced to sell the campus in 1973 to the City University of New York and it became Bronx Community College. Though the Hall’s renown has itself faded, its architecture remains, and it stands as a secular national shrine not just to great men (and some women), but to Roman ideals of fame favored at the beginning of the 20th century.

20263.

Cheering Governor Roosevelt, Dewey Celebration, New York.

20264.

President Harrison Laying the Cornerstone of the Grant Monument.

20265.

President Harrison’s Carriage, N.Y. Centennial. This is the Centennial of Washington’s inauguration.

20266.

5323. Honored resting place of Gen. Grant, outlook N. up Hudson River, New York.

20267.

12397. Weighing and counting hides from South America, on wharf, New York.

20268.

10730. In the cozy library of Andrew Carnegie’s own home, Fifth Ave., New York.

20269.

On West Street, looking North-skirting the North River ferry landings, New York City. (D)

20270.

Broadway, the Busy Thoroughfare of America, New York.

20277.

Battery Park-extreme southern part of Manhattan Island-Elevated Railway and NY Bay.

20287.

Commission of Filipinos visiting America-in automobiles, before Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.

20288.

Commission of Filipinos visiting America-in automobiles before Metropolitan Museum of Art.

20289.

10729. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

20290.

10025. Ezra Meeker and ox-team, on Fifth Ave., NY, after journey over the “Old Oregon Trail.”

20291.

10063. The Thomas car (American) starting from New York on the race to Paris. The Great Race of 1908 was an event sponsored by newspaper companies to sell both press and automobiles. The Parisian daily Le Matin in conjunction with The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune sponsored the six car journey from New York to Paris. This race around the world began on February 12, 1908 in Times Square.

20293.

10064. The Zust car (Italian) starting from New York on the race to Paris. The Great Race of 1908 was an event sponsored by newspaper companies to sell both press and automobiles. The Parisian daily Le Matin in conjunction with The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune sponsored the six car journey from New York to Paris. This race around the world began on February 12, 1908 in Times Square.

20298.

11228. Curtis in his bi-plane, just ready for flight, Long Island, New York.

40207.

8288. Looking N. up Fifth Ave. past Flatiron Bldg. and Madison Sq., New York. The man on the girder is identified as Horace Dade Ashton. In The Spirit of Villarosa: A Father’s Extraordinary Adventures; A Son’s Challenge by Horace Ashton and Marc Ashton, a biography of Horace Dade Ashton by his sons, it is stated that “My favorite Horace Ashton photograph hangs on the wall in my home. It is the famous black-and-white self-portrait he took from the top of the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. In the picture I have, he is sitting on the girder high above the city. The photograph is my favorite for a number of reasons, certainly because it is a wonderful example of classic American art of the twentieth century, but mostly because it is so typical of Dad. I’m sure he enjoyed the thrill of it all that day.” In this quote the image is referred to as a “self-portrait” which would mean Horace Dade Ashton is both the subject and the photographer.