- Description
- 153 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 8" x 10" or smaller.
- 53 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- 2 negatives : film, b&w ;
- Summary
- Events in New York: reception for Marian Anderson, 1940s, including Anderson signing autographs; dancers, musicians, and spectators, both African American and white, at a Calypso dance, Irving Place, 1940s, including Pearl Primus among the dancers; Gennaro Festival, 1946, including views of the lights, crowds, vendors, the San Gennaro shrine, men and a boy in tuxedoes in a restaurant, children dancing, a singer, African American girls with balloons, hotdog and soda.
- Views of the photographer Weegee: Weegee's wedding to Margaret Atwood; Weegee, Maurice Sievan, and Wilma Wilcox at Wilma's, 1940s[?]; Weegee with a Bolex, in Washington Square, 1946 and at San Gennaro Festival; Marjorie Engler and Weegee with a Bolex filming miniatures; book parties for Weegee at Sammy's in the Bowery and at Earl Wilson's, including views of Dorothy Thompson, Maxim Kopf, Bernie Green, Margie Hart, Doris Lilly, George Ratke, Karen Ratke, Sanford Gerard, Sherman Billingsley, Mr. Mills of Brentano's, Sashe Hammond, Hans Richter, Fanny Hurst, "uptown guests," barflies, servicemen, and security with a bum; Weegee photographing the filming of "The Naked City."
- Street scenes, New York City: storefronts, including cigar store with wooden Indian, porkstore and Kosher meat market, hardware store, junk store, newstand, and a store called "Mythology"; a hotdog vendor, pretzel lady, fruit vendors, bootblack, and missionaries with organs, and a dog having portrait drawn by street artist; people, including African American men in Bryant Park, checker players and spectators, a family on Cherry Street, a sailor and son, both in sailor outfits, family having a picnic, people on street and stoops in "San Juan Hill," people on the elevated, 3 musicians under a street light, one wearing a lei, men advertising with signs and sandwich boards, "gentlemen of leisure" at Mulberry bend, men outside employment agency; boys ready for a swim, children playing ; horses and wagons; laundry hanging out; a church, row of homes titled "Suburbia," sculpture in Straus Park; elevated tracks and Chrysler building, Woolworth building; audience at Lewiston Stadium concert series; men and a little girl on benches in front of Washington Square restroom; looking toward Trinity Church; the tugboat "Milton".
- Views in Massachusetts and Maine: Serge Koussevitzky, wife, niece and Howard Shanet; people in Nantucket, 1946, including African American shoe-shine boy, older lady with hotdog, and others, and a chair made of driftwood; diver in suit, Monhegan Island, Maine, 1951, "Rescue of St. Christopher."
- Subject
- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
- Fuchs, Sammy
- Kopf, Maxim, 1892-1958
- Koussevitzky, Serge, 1874-1951
- Primus, Pearl
- Shanet, Howard
- Thompson, Dorothy, 1893-1961
- Weegee, 1899-1968
- San Gennaro Festival (New York, N.Y.)
- Advertisements > New York (State) > New York
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York
- Audiences > New York (State) > New York
- Board games > New York (State) > New York
- Calypso (Music)
- Celebrations > New York (State) > New York
- Churches > New York (State) > New York
- Children > New York (State) > New York
- Clotheslines > New York > New York
- Dogs > New York > New York
- Drawing > New York > New York
- Elevated railroads > New York > New York
- Interior architecture > New York > New York
- Midways > New York > New York
- Military personnel
- Motion pictures
- Musicians > New York > New York
- Nightclubs > New York > New York
- Parks > New York (State) > New York
- Peddlers > New York > New York
- Photographers > New York > New York
- Picnics > New York > New York
- Publishers
- Religious articles > New York > New York
- Sandwich boards > New York > New York
- Shoe shiners
- Signs > New York > New York
- Streets > New York (State) > New York
- Tugboats
- Window displays > New York > New York
- Washington Square (New York, N.Y.)
- Monhegan Island (Me.)
- Genre/Form
- Negatives.
- Photographic prints.
- Silver gelatin prints.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Views stamped with photographer's name, signed, and title and date written on verso. Some images mounted or matted. Includes both vintage and later prints. Not included in extent are contact sheets.
- Access (note)
- Terms of Use (note)
- Coypright, estate of Lee Sievan.
- Provenance (note)
- Bequest of Lee Sievan, 1991
- Exhibitions (note)
- Exhibited: New Acquisitions, NYPL, 1992.
- Call Number
- MFZ+ (Sievan) 94-325
- OCLC
- NYPG94-F9
- Author
Sievan, Lee, photographer.
- Title
Photographs of New York city streets, events, nightlife, and views in Maine and Massachusetts[graphic] / Lee Sievan.
- Imprint
1938-196-.
- Restricted Access
Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Terms Of Use
Coypright, estate of Lee Sievan.
- Provenance
Bequest of Lee Sievan, 1991,
- Exhibitions
Weegee with Bolex at San Gennaro Festival, 1949 Exhibited: New Acquisitions, NYPL, 1992.
- Research Call Number
MFZ+ (Sievan) 94-325