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Southworth & Hawes was an early photographic firm in Boston, 1843–1863. Its partners, Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901), have been hailed as the first great American masters of photography, whose work elevated photographic portraits to the level of fine art.
Josiah J. Hawes, c. 1850-1855 Advertisement for J.J. Hawes, Boston, 1868. Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts.He and Albert Southworth established the photography studio of Southworth & Hawes, which produced numerous portraits of exceptional quality in the 1840s–1860s.
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is a photography museum and school at 84 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [1] ICP's photographic collection, reading room, and archives are at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey. [2] The organization was founded by Cornell Capa in 1974. [3]
The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
Wallace Building (56 Pine Street) - also a New York City Landmark; American Stock Exchange Building (86 Trinity Place) - also a New York City Landmark; The House of Morgan (23 Wall Street) - also a New York City Landmark; Federal Hall National Memorial (26 Wall Street) - also a New York City Landmark; Bank of the Manhattan Company Building (40 ...
The district, one of the smallest in New York City, [2] encompasses the entire alley, which consists of 10 two-story brick stables built in 1863–1864 in the early Romanesque Revival style. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated Sniffen Court as a city historic district on June 21, 1966, [ 4 ] and the ...
The New York school of photography is identified by Jane Livingston as "a loosely defined group of photographers who lived and worked in New York City during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s" and who, although disinclined to commit themselves to any group or belief, "shared a number of influences, aesthetic assumptions, subjects, and stylistic earmarks".
The razing of buildings for the construction of the complex began in 1950, and the buildings were completed on April 1, 1953. [3] [7]The key sponsor of the development was State assemblyman John J. Lamula and it was named after four-time New York Governor Al Smith (1873–1944), the first Catholic to win a Presidential nomination by a major political party and a social reformer who made ...