Research Catalog

Title

Street types of great American cities / by Sigmund Krausz ; with literary sketches by well-known authors and a preface by Dr. Emil G. Hirsch.

Author

Krausz, Sigmund, 1857-1928

Publication

Chicago ; New York : Werner Company, 1896.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hirsch, Emil Gustav, 1851-1923
• Armstrong, Le Roy, 1854-1927
• Banks, Charles Eugene, 1852-1932
• Blum, Edgar C., 1866-1927
• Clover, Sam T., 1859-1934
• Head, Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey), 1832-1914
• Horton, George, 1860-1942
• King, Ben, 1857-1894
• Maitland, James
• McGovern, John, 1850-1917
• Pritchard, E. R., 1852-1932
• Read, Opie, 1852-1939
• Ritchie, John, 1853-1930
• Schierbrand, Wolf von
• Waterloo, Stanley, 1846-1913
• Welch, Frank B.
• Whitford, C. B., 1850-1926
• Werner Company (Chicago, Ill.), publisher

Description

191 pages : portraits; 20 cm

Summary

46 full-length studio portrait photographs (halftones) by Krausz, each accompanied by a page of text. Subjects are men, women and children commonly seen on the streets of Chicago, photographed with objects of their occupations; include workmen, newspaper boys, street vendors, street musicians, representatives of various ethnic groups and social classes, etc. In all, 23 texts are by Krausz; others (some in verse) are by Le Roy Armstrong, Charles Eugene Banks, Edgar C. Blum, Sam T. Clover, Franklin H. Head, George Horton, Ben King, James Maitland, John McGovern, Ed. R. Pritchard, Opie Read, John Ritchie, Wolf von Schierbrand, Stanley Waterloo, Frank B. Welch and C.B. Whitford.

Subject

• City dwellers > United States > Portraits
• City dwellers > Illinois > Chicago > Portraits
• Street life > Illinois > Chicago > Pictorial works
• Portrait photography
• City dwellers
• Chicago (Ill.) > Biography > Portraits
• Chicago (Ill.) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
• United States

Genre/Form

• Portraits.
• Halftone photomechanical prints.

Note

• Revised and expanded version of a work published 1892 under title: Street types of Chicago (Chicago : Max Stern & Co.). Photographs in present edition are slightly reduced in size and reproduced as halftones; some reversed. There are 10 new subjects, with accompanying texts by Krausz, who has also substituted his own texts for 7 of those in the original edition.

Call Number

D-11 4736

LCCN

01023429

OCLC

7936753

Author

Krausz, Sigmund, 1857-1928, photographer.

Title

Street types of great American cities / by Sigmund Krausz ; with literary sketches by well-known authors and a preface by Dr. Emil G. Hirsch.

Imprint

Chicago ; New York : Werner Company, 1896.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Hirsch, Emil Gustav, 1851-1923, writer of preface.

Armstrong, Le Roy, 1854-1927, writer of added text.

Banks, Charles Eugene, 1852-1932, writer of added text.

Blum, Edgar C., 1866-1927, writer of added text.

Clover, Sam T., 1859-1934, writer of added text.

Head, Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey), 1832-1914, writer of added text.

Horton, George, 1860-1942, writer of added text.

King, Ben, 1857-1894, writer of added text.

Maitland, James, writer of added text.

McGovern, John, 1850-1917, writer of added text.

Pritchard, E. R., 1852-1932, writer of added text.

Read, Opie, 1852-1939, writer of added text.

Ritchie, John, 1853-1930, writer of added text.

Schierbrand, Wolf von, writer of added text.

Waterloo, Stanley, 1846-1913, writer of added text.

Welch, Frank B., writer of added text.

Whitford, C. B., 1850-1926, writer of added text.

Expanded version of (expression): Krausz, Sigmund, 1857-1928. Street types of Chicago.

Werner Company (Chicago, Ill.), publisher.

Other Form:

Online version: Krausz, Sigmund, 1857-1928. Street types of great American cities. Chicago ; New York : Werner Company, 1896 (OCoLC)647084461

Research Call Number

D-11 4736