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Guide to the Clarence Jack Konheim Photograph Collection1930's-1960's PR 315

Clarence Jack Konheim Photograph Collection

Call Number

PR 315

Date

1930's-1950's, inclusive

Creator

Extent

1.3 Linear feet (2 boxes, 64 photos)

Language of Materials

English .

Abstract

Clarence Jack Konheim (1902-1968) was an amateur photographer and member of the Tudor City Camera Club. This collection contains 36 black and white photographs of New York City between the 1930's and 1960's. Subjects include Easter Sunday in Harlem, an elderly couple sunning themselves in winter in Coney Island, a window washer, an urban baseball game, and fishing from a pier.

Scope and Contents Note

This collection contains 64 black and white photographs of New York City scenes between the 1930's and 1960's. The photographs were taken by amateur photographer Clarence Jack Konheim (1902-1968). According to a 1953 Yale alumni publication, Konheim lived at 321 East 43rd Street and worked for the Grayson Whitney Corp. Several of the photographs bear stickers from the Metropolitan Camera Club and Tudor City Camera Club. Images are described in the container list below.

Access Restrictions

Available by advance appointment only. To schedule an appointment, contact the Print Room Librarian at printroom@nyhistory.org. Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to twenty exposures of stable, unbound material per day. (Researchers may not accrue unused copy amounts from previous days.)

Use Restrictions

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
212-485-9228

The copyright law of the United States governs the making of photocopies and protects unpublished materials as well as published materials. Unpublished materials created before January 1, 1978 cannot be quoted in publication without permission of the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation Note

This collection should be cited as: Clarence Jack Konheim Photograph Collection, PR 315, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections, The New-York Historical Society.

Provenance

Gift of Linda Konheim Kramer, 2015

Collection processed by

Susan Kriete

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-21 15:49:44 -0400.
Language: Description is in English

Repository

New-York Historical Society

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Five men (African American and white) hanging out on railing, circa 1930's

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

United Nation Building with flagpoles, circa 1950

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

Two men and a boy warming by a trash can fire on lower east side, circa 1940's

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

Laundry drying on lines between tenements, circa 1940's

Fire escapes, undated

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

Reflection of buildings in United Nations Building, circa 1950's

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

Building covered with posters, 1963

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

59th Street horse carriages at night, 1936

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

Two Italian men sitting in front of donations at feast of San Gennaro, undated

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

Window washer, circa 1930's

Couple sunning themselves in winter with reflector on Coney Island, circa 1950

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

Salvation Army recruiting (2 photos), circa 1950

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

Asian children (in Chinatown?), undated

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

Children (4 photos), circa 1930's

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

Easter in Harlem (8 photos), 1952 or 1953

Box: 1, Folder: 3-4 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Urban baseball game, circa 1940's

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

Five boys fishing off pier, circa 1940's

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

"Blizzard" (men shoveling snow), circa 1940's

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

Abstract photo of railing and shadows, undated

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

Sculpture garden MOMA, circa 1950's

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

"Tornado" (Coney Island), undated

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

"Rock-O-Plan" (Coney Island), undated

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

"Wonder wheel behind stock" (Coney Island), undated

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

"Wonder wheel behind bars" (Coney Island), undated

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

"Parachute jump" (Coney Island), undated

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

Harbor view over parking lot, circa 1950

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

Boats docked with view of skyline, undated

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

Harbor view with boats, undated

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

Harbor view with misty view of skyline, undated

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

Skyline view through grating, undated

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

Cars crossing bridge, circa 1940's

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

Cars and people under elevated train tracks (2 photos), circa 1940

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

Night view, elevated train tracks

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

View from bridge, undated

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

City view with billboards and water tanks, circa 1940

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

City view with bridges, undated

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

View over Brooklyn showing elevated train terminal on present site of Cadman Plaza, circa 1936

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Central Park, kids fishing (includes several African-American children), circa 1930's

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Central Park, feeding ducks and geese, circa 1930's

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Young boy on street, circa 1930's

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Slushy streets, New York (3 photos), circa 1940's

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Pennsylvania Station interior (2 photos), circa 1940's

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Industrial scenes, New York (2 photos), circa 1940's

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Trains in station, undated

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Views of Empire State Building (3 photos), undated

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

People on viewing platform?, circa 1950

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Workers painting Ritz crackers billboard on building, circa 1940's

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)
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