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Archive of 100 Photographs from New York Photographer Henry Reister, advertising Remington Typewriters, the New York Telephone Directory, Other Various Products, and depicting the People and Architecture of the New York Region c. 1915-1930 by [New York] [Photography] Reister, Harry

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Title: Archive of 100 Photographs from New York Photographer Henry Reister, advertising Remington Typewriters, the New York Telephone Directory, Other Various Products, and depicting the People and Architecture of the New York Region c. 1915-1930
Author: [New York] [Photography] Reister, Harry
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Excellent
Description: New York and Environs, 1930. Excellent. We find scant information on Henry Reister, a professional photographer operating throughout the New York metropolitan region in the early part of the century. His studio moved several times, from the Bronx to Bridgewater, New Jersey, then to Woodlawn, New York. This interesting and varied collection from his estate shows the type of work available to a professional photographer operating in New York during the period - architectural shoots, product photography, events and some portraiture. The opulent wealth of New York’s upper classes during the 1920s is on display in Reister’s architectural work, which makes up a large portion of this collection. The burgeoning commercial age is also shown in his product photographs, most notably a series of photographs of Remington typewriters, a series of photographs of the newly created New York Telephone Directory, two photographs of automobiles and a series of brightly-lit interior grocery store displays. Contents as follows: Seven images advertising typewriters, with five showing a young woman posed with a Remington typewriter; five images of the New York Telephone Directory; five images of brightly lit grocery store interiors, most focusing on elaborate lighting on a dairy display; two images of automobiles, one showing a man in fine dress posed alongside an automobile, the other showing a close-up of a license plate; thirteen varied product images, including proto-modernist images of radiators, an image of the Cory Smoke Telegraph Indicator, three floral still lives and an opulently presented bowl of ice cream; forty-six architectural photographs, including a rather stark series of institutional interiors including lavatories, extravagant gardens, the interiors of a bank on Broadway and high end domestic interiors; six photographs of the Yorkville Social Center Baby Parade of 1916; seven portraits, including one of a worker holding two bolts, several military portraits and an outdoor portrait of a couple in a garden; Eight scenes from Reister’s personal life, most relating to an automobile trip made with his wife in 1930. Overall a strong representation of pre-Depression New York, with many iconic aspects of the city and its environs represented. Despite his low profile, Reister was a proficient professional photographer, and the images remain quite attractive and in generally very good to fine condition with a few showing small tears at edges.

Archive of Photographs Taken in Physical Culture City by [Utopias] [Physical Culture Movement] [McFadden, Bernarr] Physical Culture City

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Title: Archive of Photographs Taken in Physical Culture City
Author: [Utopias] [Physical Culture Movement] [McFadden, Bernarr] Physical Culture City
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Condition: Fair to Good
Description: Physical Culture City, 1905. First Edition. Physical Culture City, Spotswood, New Jersey, 1905 or later. Thirty-one images in total, varying sizes, most 3 x 5 inches or smaller. Fair to Good. Bernarr Macfadden was a proponent of Physical Culture, a movement combining exercise with nutrition and ascetic living that helped give rise to bodybuilding culture. The movement had origins in the mid nineteenth century in Germany, the United Kingdom and eventually America. Macfadden’s system gained popularity largely through the exposure he gave it in his large publishing empire. He founded Physical Culture magazine in 1899, and eventually grew his publishing holdings to include several other publications including Liberty, True Detective, Photoplay and others. In 1905, McFadden purchased land in Spotswood, New Jersey with the intention of forming a community of Physical Culture proponents. He wrote, in Physical Culture, that he wanted to form a community where “physical culturists could live the kind of life they could not find out in the rest of the world... No sickly prudes, no saloons, drug stores, tobacco shops or places in which one may purchase things that make for the moral undoing of man or woman!" After engaging the services of two hundred loyal physical culturists to clear the land and build the camp, Macfadden moved his entire publishing operation to the newly-built camp in 1905. The experiment was short-lived. Residents of the area complained of the physical culturists scant attire, the camp suffered from disorganization, and Macfadden was busy dealing with various other legal problems relating to his publishing empire, including a conviction for publishing explicit material in Physical Culture. Eventually this proved too much to bear, and the experiment failed in 1910. Macfadden moved his remaining operation to the Flatiron Building. The group of photographs here offer a scarce look into the failed project. Macfadden is pictured in one of the pictures, wrestling with another man in the snow. Most of the other images show the architecture of the camp, with a few showing the residents, and one picture showing a group of men looking at a car that has fallen into a river due to a bridge collapsing. Unfortunately the images are not in great shape, having been exposed to moisture at some point and removed from an album by us to house in archival sleeves. We have kept the rear board of the original album, as there is a map of Physical Culture City affixed, and it is included here. The pictures remain in fair to good condition, and the historical scarcity and intrigue of the content makes them worth the effort to digitize and preserve.

Shall Kansas be a Free State! Grand Rush for the Seat of War! War! War! Famine in Europe! Tremendous Excitement! Indifferent Writers Take Courage! [Advertising Broadside for Mr. Chadbourne, New England Writing Master] by [New Hampshire] [Bleeding Kansas] [Advertising] Mr. Chadbourn,the New England Writing Master

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Title: Shall Kansas be a Free State! Grand Rush for the Seat of War! War! War! Famine in Europe! Tremendous Excitement! Indifferent Writers Take Courage! [Advertising Broadside for Mr. Chadbourne, New England Writing Master]
Author: [New Hampshire] [Bleeding Kansas] [Advertising] Mr. Chadbourn,the New England Writing Master
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New Hampshire, 1857. Broadside advertisement, 5 ½ x 11 inches. Very Good. An unusual advertisement for a penmanship instructor, a Mr. Chadbourn, announcing the opening of his academy on September 15, 1857 in Wolfborough, New Hampshire. The broadside states, “Inspired with the confidence of more than five years experience as a Teacher of Writing, now offers to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Wolfborough his universally admired system of Penmanship, which for beauty of style, ease of acquisition, rapidity of execution, and ready adaptation, to the wants of business and private correspondence, stands unrivalled by any system extant.” An interesting relic from the middle of the Bleeding Kansas period, which would serve as a harbinger for the bloodiness of the American Civil War. A very good example with a chip with loss to upper corner and some toning to head, but attractive and well preserved. Unrecorded in OCLC.

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