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Paperbound. Condition: New. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 132. Fully illustrated with 122 annotated full page b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . The Byron Collection at the Museum of the City of New York is an archive of 22,000 photographs taken by The Byron Company a prominent New York photography studio between 1890 and 1942. The Byron photographers took as its subjects all manner of social life in and around New York; the collection includes private subjects (family portraits and home photographs), but the bulk of the collection documents public life and public institutions. . One of this collection's strengths is its documentation of institutions created during the Progressive Era to serve children. An abundance of photographs portray scenes at the Children's Aid Society, the Emanuel Lehman Foundation for crippled children, the New York Foundling Hospital, the New York Association for the Blind, and various other schools, hospitals, and orphanages. Viewers can see interior images demonstrating the daily activities of the children in these institutions. Even the titles of these organizations are sometimes worthy tools in the study of history: "The School For Feeble-Minded Children" is a noteworthy relic of a time before Americans became concerned with sensitive language.
