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ALICE AUSTEN (1866-1952) Portfolio entitled Street Types of New York. Extraordinary complete portfolio of 12 delightful photogravures that keenly capture people on the streets of late 19th-century Manhattan. Photogravures, the images measuring approximately 3 3/4x4 3/8 inches (9.5x11.1 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, the mounts 6 3/4x8 3/4 inches (17.2x22.2 cm.), each with Austen's credit and copyright date in the plate. 4to-sized cloth-covered boards folder with the printed title on the cover; ties, one perished; the small printed plate list laid in. 1896
Street Sweeper, Forty-Eighth Street and Eighth Avenue * Street Cleaner, Thirty-Fourth Street * Policeman, Herald Square * Postman, Fifth-Sixth Street and Madison Avenue * Mounted Messenger Boy, Thirtieth Street * Newsboy, Grand Central Depot * Bootblacks, City Hall Park * Hansom Cab, Union Square * Organ Grinder and Wife, Forty-Eighth Street and Broadway * Shoelace Peddler, Trinity Church Railing * Pretzel Vender and Emigrant, South Ferry * Ragman and Cart, Twenty-Ninth Street, between Third and Lexington Avenues
Provenance: The Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia
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