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[Late 19th-Century New York City: Night-Time Street Scene Outside of the New York Evening Telegram Newspaper Offices].
[Late 19th-Century New York City: Night-Time Street Scene Outside of the New York Evening Telegram Newspaper Offices].

[Late 19th-Century New York City: Night-Time Street Scene Outside of the New York Evening Telegram Newspaper Offices].

New York City, outside the newspaper offices of the New York Evening Telegram


Original unsigned late Victorian charcoal drawing of a night-time street scene in New York City, outside the newspaper offices of the New York Evening Telegram.

A crowd of men gather at the large outdoor billboard of the New York Evening Telegram newspaper, possibly watching election returns or the results of a boxing or sporting match. As the crowd mills about under gas-lit street lamps, the solitary figure of a man is seen above the throng. His large shadow is cast across the brightly illuminated newspaper billboard outside the newspaper’s Herald Square building as he posts the results. A sign across the top reads “N Y Evening Telegram.”

The New York Evening Telegram was founded in 1867 by James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (1841–1918) whose father published the New York Herald. Beginning in 1866, the younger Bennett was in charge of the Herald and it was he who established the New York Evening Telegram, a kind of evening edition of the more established Herald.

As an aside, Winslow Homer used Saint Mars watermarked paper for his original drawings dating to the 1870s to 1880s.


Description: [Late 19th-Century New York City: Night-Time Street Scene Outside of the New York Evening Telegram Newspaper Offices].

[Likely New York. ca. 1880s.] Original Artwork. Charcoal Sketch with white chalk or pastel highlights. About 10 x 12 inches. Pale gray laid artist paper watermarked “Saint Mars.” Expertly framed under glass. Faint foxing; near fine.

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