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Myron Golden Photograph Collection

Call Number

PR 303

Date

1950's, inclusive

Creator

Extent

0.83 Linear feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

The documents in the collection are in English.

Abstract

This collection consists of approximately 100 photographs and negatives depicting buildings and people in New York City in the 1950's.

Arrangement

These materials are arranged by subject.

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of approximately 50 gelatin silver prints depicting people and buildings in New York City in the 1950's. The collection also includes some of the negatives for these prints, as well as additional negatives for which there is no print. Subjects include chess players, kids, businesses, an outdoor art show, the Polo Grounds, fishing on the piers, billboards, and other New York City scenes. Also included are a few photographs that were apparently taken outside of New York City.

Access Restrictions

Materials in this collection may be stored offsite. For more information on making arrangements to consult them, please visit www.nyhistory.org/library/visit.

Use Restrictions

Taking images of documents from the library collections for reference purposes by using hand-held cameras and in accordance with the library's photography guidelines is encouraged. As an alternative, patrons may request up to 20 images per day from staff.

Application to use images from this collection for publication should be made in writing to: Department of Rights and Reproductions, The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5194, rightsandrepro@nyhistory.org. Phone: (212) 873-3400 ext. 282.

Copyrights and other proprietary rights may subsist in individuals and entities other than the New-York Historical Society, in which case the patron is responsible for securing permission from those parties. For fuller information about rights and reproductions from N-YHS visit: https://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions

Location of Materials

Materials in this collection may be stored offsite. For more information on making arrangements to consult them, please visit www.nyhistory.org/library/visit.

Provenance

Gift of John Conrad Weiser, 2009

Collection processed by

Susan Kriete

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-21 15:47:57 -0400.
Language: Description is in English

Repository

New-York Historical Society

Series I: Gelatin silver prints

Street scenes, kids (includes kid playing stickball) (4), 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Street scenes, adults (includes chess games in Washington Square, woman on roller skates, card players, woman with camera and man shoveling snow) (6), 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Street scenes, buildings (Bedford Street, MacDougal Street, Patchen Place, Cherry Lane Theater, views from 302 West 12th Street) (8), 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Street scenes, buildings (unidentified) (3), 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Street scenes, dismantled elevated subway (2), 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Street scenes, businesses (funeral parlor on Jane Street, Third Avenue antique importers) (5), 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Hudson river piers (includes people fishing) (6), 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Outdoor art show (12), 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Broadway billboards at night (2), 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Men painting billboard for State Senate election next to "Buy U.S. Savings Bond" poster, 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

E.J. Sperry Thought Factory (Chicago?), 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Cigar store Indian, 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Self-portrait, Myron Golden, 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Series II: Negatives

Horses in van, 1953

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

New Faces [Broadway show](2), 1953

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Building and empty lot (2), 1953

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Institute of Design, 1953

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Chess players, Washington Square (2), 1954

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Hudson River from 302 West 12th Street, 1954

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Gansevoort dock (2), 1954

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Hudson River dock (fishing), 1954

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Washington Square, 1954

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

67 West 3rd Street, 1954

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Leroy Street, 1954

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

302 West 12th Street, 1954

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Polo grounds (6), 1954

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

3rd Avenue windows (2), 1955

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Cradle-Mass Productions (2), 1955

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Subway (4), 1955

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Jane Street, 1956

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Negatives of printed images, 1950's

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)
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