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A Down-town lunch-room in New York / drawn by T. de Thulstrup. – Historic Print

A Down-town lunch-room in New York / drawn by T. de Thulstrup., 1888 — antique engraving
A Down-town lunch-room in New York / drawn by T. de Thulstrup., 1888. Antique engraving from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A Down-town lunch-room in New York / drawn by T. de Thulstrup. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A busy lunch room in New York's downtown district is the subject here, as Harper's Weekly presented it in its September 8, 1888 issue. Men crowd around counters and tables to grab a midday meal between errands and office work. The drawing is by Thure de Thulstrup, a Swedish-born illustrator who contributed often to Harper's, and it ran as a wood engraving across two pages of the magazine. Quick, inexpensive lunch rooms like this one served the city's clerks and business workers, and the scene offers a useful glimpse of how working New Yorkers ate and socialized in the late 1880s.

Created / published1888
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1880-1890.Wood engravings 1880-1890.
NotesIllus. in: Harper's weekly, 1888 Sept. 8, pp. 672-673.
SubjectsRestaurants--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Eating & drinking--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Men--Social life--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,555 × 2,720 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183067

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