Showing posts with label Catalogue of the Vanished. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catalogue of the Vanished. Show all posts

Friday, March 07, 2008

Sunday, September 16, 2007

War #5, Scenes from a Life #13, Catalogue of the Vanished #7


Ruins of Cloth Hall in Ypres, Belgium. Diary compiled by Ethel Anderson (1918-19)

Saturday, July 21, 2007

The Iron Horse #3, Manhattan #27, Catalogue of the Vanished #6


Interior of Grand Central Depot, 42nd Street and 4th [later Park] Avenue
John B. Snook, architect (1871)
Photograph: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (ca. 1875)

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Manhattan #18, Catalogue of the Vanished #5


Croton Reservoir, looking west on 42nd Street at Fifth Avenue. (late 1800s)

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Catalogue of the Vanished #4, The Outer Boroughs #3


Garibaldi Memorial over Antonio Meucci cottage, Staten Island (1923-52)
Berenice Abbott, photograph (1937)

Manhattan #16, Catalogue of the Vanished #3, Music #9


Lustron Corp. displays its prototype pre-fabricated, porcelain enamel house at 52nd Street and Sixth Avenue to the masses; meanwhile, the late Baroque era of the 52nd Street jazz scene plays on at night. William P. Gottlieb, photographer. (Summer 1948)


Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Catalogue of the Vanished #2, Panorama #3, The Outer Boroughs #2





Paradise: Dreamland, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York (August 17, 1907)
Paradise Lost: Dreamland destroyed (June 8, 1911)

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Catalogue of the Vanished #1





Jayne Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (1849-51) William L. Johnston and Thomas U. Walter, architects. Tower burned (1872). Demolished (1957-58).