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Nether Again: 1900

New York, 1900. "Hotel Netherland, Fifth Avenue and 59th Street." Our sixth look at this historic hostelry. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

New York, 1900. "Hotel Netherland, Fifth Avenue and 59th Street." Our sixth look at this historic hostelry. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

 

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Snazzy skirt

The distinctively-patterned skirt on the 1900 avatar of JennyPennifer on the far right is remarkably similar to the skirt on the woman behind her and to the left a bit. Is it simply a coincidence, a fashion of the day, or some photographic effect?

Carbon Arc Lamps

Which would literally turn night into a nightmarish form of day. They're so bright.

We used to have WWII surplus arc lamp spotlights at our state fair that would send beams tens of thousands of feet into the air. Some idiot sold them to a company in Houston.

Illuminate us

Is that a gas or electric light in the foreground?

[Carbon arc lamp. - Dave]

I can't prove it

But I think I am descended from the lady in the far right of the photo with the huge black bow on her head and what I suspect is a perpetually quizzical look on her face. That snazzy skirt gives it away too.

Complicated then, forgotten now

Park and Tilford, founded in 1840, were ... well let's just call them "grocers." The actual history seems to be as involved as 220,877 newspaper hits might suggest. An importer of fine foods, after Prohibition they became known for a line of whiskies.

Bryan-Stevenson

Note the Tammany Hall banner promoting the Democratic presidential ticket of William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson, who ended up losing the 1900 election to William McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt.

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