Lot 280
JOHN KNAUER (active 1890s-1910s)
Mini-archive of more than 300 photographs of Upper Manhattan, the Bronx, and lower Westchester, including recreational scenes, beer halls, laborers, street scenes, baseball, and more.
Albumen, printing-out paper, and silver prints, the images measuring 4 3/4x3 3/4 to 7 1/2x9 3/4 inches (12.1x9.5 to 19.1x24.8 cm.), and the reverse, many of the smaller prints are mounted or with caption information; a few with notations in the negative. 1890s-1912
Estimate $900 - 1,200
A lively group of photographs that apparently celebrates how Northern European immigrant families adapted to the new neighborhoods in the Bronx while enjoying some of the rituals associated with the Old World. Includes wonderful scenes that show beer drinking, dining, children playing, men hanging out, and more. One of the captions reads "Young Americans."