Bargain Day, 14th Street, New York 1905

Photographed April 1, 1905.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
Camera: Frederick S. Armitage

The Rothschild Co. 5 and 10 cent store viewed from a second story window across Fourteenth Street. Crowds of shoppers and pedestrians mill about in the midday hustle and bustle. Since the late nineteenth century 14th Street has been one of the city's main retail bargain centers.

New York City in 1905:
On April 12 Frederick Thompson's Hippodrome Theater, the city's largest arena, opened on Sixth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets / The city takes over the Staten Island ferries / For a second year the Giants win the National League pennant in five games / In Manhattan, Gennaro Lombardi opens the first pizzeria / Amid blatant fraud, Democrat George McClellan is elected mayor on November 7 / The slum population in New York exceeded the population ratio in Bombay, reaching a density ratio of 1,000 persons an acre in some areas

Also in 1905:
March 3, the U.S. Forest Service is formed / The "fastest long-distance train in the world," Pennsylvania Railroad's 18-hour train between New York and Chicago, was inaugurated on June 11 / July 11th Black intellectuals and activists organize Niagara movement founded by W. E. B. Dubois / September 27th, first published blues composition forms sale, 'Memphis Blues' by W.C. Handy Here's a piano roll rendition of this important song by the great Eubie Blake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPoOzfzYrR8

'Uncle Josh in a Department Store - Cal Stewart 1908 (Vaudeville comedy record): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8unEyBfN9w&list=PL9FC332BF2C7A1155&in...

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by men and women in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours." - Grover Cleveland in Ladies' Home Journal

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