The guy leaning out of the window looks like a cardboard cutout.

[His elongated perspective is an artifact of the view cameras with tilt-shift lenses that were used to make these exposures. - Dave]

Is this really a person or a perhaps a large lifelike photograph. Head and shoulders look so much larger than the man on the street (light colored jacket/barber tunic) directly below. Seems the man on the street would be closer to camera lens and therefore slightly larger.

That man in the window looks two-dimensional!

Like the mustachioed man in the window.

I grew up in Providence, and this is one of my favorite buildings: three floors, fancy ironwork, skylights. You can't appreciate the inside from the rather drab outside.

From the top left window.

I wonder if he is the owner of the office, as a paid employee of this era would not have dared to peek out at the kerfuffle outside.

Why do the gents in bowler hats all look like Stan Laurel?