Aug 9, 2023
St. Patrick's Cathedral, looking oddly forlorn, in 1923. Saks Fifth Avenue wasn't built (on the right) until the following year.
Photo: Byron Company via MCNY
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St. Patrick's Cathedral, looking oddly forlorn, in 1923. Saks Fifth Avenue wasn't built (on the right) until the following year.
Photo: Byron Company via MCNY
Two students and a superintendent at the Brooklyn Training School & Home for Young Girls (also known as the Protestant Problem Girls School), 1483 Pacific Street, 1923.
Despite the alternate name, the school was anything but a Dickensian horror house. It admitted girls between the ages of 14 and 21 who would otherwise be out on the street or in dire straits, and gave them a general education and training for work as maids or housekeepers (anything else required advanced education). There were many such schools for boys, but this one, opened in 1889, was the first one for girls. Admission was originally voluntary, but soon courts began sending girls there who got into trouble with the law. It closed in 1949.
Photo: Byron Co. via MCNY
Vintage Selfie #2: A side view of photographers posing together for a picture on the roof of Marceau's Studio, Fifth Avenue opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral, 1920. Joseph Byron holds one side of the camera with his right hand and Ben Falk holds the other side with his left hand.
Vintage Selfie #1
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