Description | English: Stock cut from an 1897 American Type Founders catalogue |
Date | 1897 |
Source | Specimens of Type, Borders, Ornaments, Brass Rules and Cuts, etc., a catalogue from American Type Founders (https://archive.org/details/specimensoftypeb00amer/page/744/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Category Archives: Street Scenes
Headpiece with Street Scene, 1922
Lies, by Glenn O. Coleman

Description | English: “Lies,” by Glenn O. Coleman, illustrating a poem by Lydia Gibson |
Date | 1913 |
Source | The Masses (https://archive.org/details/t031-v05n01-m29-oct-1913-masses/page/n13/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Glenn O. Coleman |
Hope Springs Eternal, by Maurice Becker

Description | English: “Hope Springs Eternal,” drawn by Maurice Becker for the cover of The Masses |
Date | 1913 |
Source | The Masses (https://archive.org/details/t031-v05n01-m29-oct-1913-masses/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Maurice Becker |
In the Gazette Great News To-Day
Description | English: London newsboy, from an American children’s book |
Date | 1810 |
Source | London Cries for Children (https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-PN970_J6_L6_1810-1958) |
Author | Anonymous |
Old shoes! Old hats!
Description | English: London old-clothes pedlar, from an American children’s book |
Date | 1810 |
Source | London Cries for Children (https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-PN970_J6_L6_1810-1958) |
Author | Anonymous |
Representation of the First of May in the City of New York (1851)

Description | English: “Representation of the First of May in the City of New York”: “The good people of Gotham seem to possess an irresistible desire to change their residences on the first of May annually” |
Date | 1851 |
Source | Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion (https://archive.org/details/gleasonspictoria01glea/page/20/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
From the original publication: The good people of Gotham seem to possess an irresistible desire to change their residences on the first of May annually, and the ludicrous scenes produced by everybody, and everybody’s furniture, being in the street at the same time, has been the subject of many a humorous poem and laughable prose sketch. Our artist has taken his cue from life, and the mad scene he has given us below is no exaggeration upon the actual truth. Porters, draymen, men, women and children, horses and carts, dogs and pigs, all seem licensed on this day to ran wild and unrestrained; but, to appreciate the picture, one must have been in New York on the first of May, and run the risk of his life, by being run over and trampled upon by the motley crowd of men and animals. In New England now, the first of May is a sort of rural holiday, when people go into the country for a breath of fragrant and pure air, and to join each other in the festivities often of dancing about the May pole as they used to do in olden times, and as we illustrated in our last number. The first of May in the city of New York is a very different occasion.
Street Merchants of Paris
Description | English: Street merchants of Paris: cherry-merchant, umbrella-merchant, cake-merchant, flower-merchant |
Date | 1833 |
Source | The Girl’s Own Book (https://archive.org/details/girlsownbook00chil/page/22/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
House of Paul Pindar in London

Description | English: House of Paul Pindar in London, from an 1833 magazine |
Date | 1833 |
Source | La Musée des familles (https://archive.org/details/musedesfamill01pari/page/n15/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Le père François, by Adolphe Barnoin

Description | English: Le père François, by Adolphe Barnoin |
Date | 1890 |
Source | Salon illustré (https://archive.org/details/salonillustr00soci/page/n373/mode/2up) |
Author | Adolphe Barnoin |