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<img alt="7" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15165" height="436" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/71.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="13" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15166" height="436" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/131.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="1" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15167" height="436" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16.jpg" width="635" /> All photos by Charles W. Cushman (Indiana University Archives) <img alt="10" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15168" height="934" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/101.jpg" width="635" /> <img alt="11" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15169" height="923" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/111.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="12" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15170" height="437" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/121.jpg" width="635" /> <img alt="3" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15171" height="436" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/31.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="4" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15172" height="927" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/41.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="2" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15173" height="437" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/21.jpg" width="635" /> <img alt="14" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15174" height="931" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/141.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="15" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15175" height="437" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/151.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="5" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15176" height="437" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/51.jpg" width="635" /> <img alt="6" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15177" height="440" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/61.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="8" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15178" height="434" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/81.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="9" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15179" height="435" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/91.jpg" width="635" /> <img alt="16" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15180" height="431" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/161.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="17" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15181" height="926" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/171.jpg" width="635" /><img alt="18" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15182" height="430" src=" https://oldpics.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/181.jpg" width="635" />

This clip from the Early Motion Picture collection was filmed 1905 and scanned on HD format. The view on Manhattans Theatre District is from the top of the then newly-erected Times Building, at a height of approximately twenty stories. The photographer makes a pan to the north over the tops of the buildings from Bryant Park, south of 42nd Street (behind the New York Public Library) up 6th Avenue to the Hippodrome Theatre at 43rd Street. A marquee on the theater reads "A Yankee Circus On Mars." The camera continues toward 44th and 45th Streets between 6th and 7th Avenues, until coming to rest looking directly north up Times Square to 46th Street, where Broadway (left) and 7th Avenue (right) diverge again <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iWQF8YEWR0k" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

Chicago is a significant transportation hub in the States. It does a lot of things in a big way. Not surprisingly Chicago has a great deal of big buildings. It is a major world financial center, with the second largest central business district in the United States. Downtown Chicago, the company center, is called the Loop. <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17168" height="590" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/World-Columbian-Exposition-Chicago-Illinois-1893-Court-of-Honor-300x236.jpg" width="750" />'  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17169 size-full" height="478" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Danger-Sign-Edison-Park-Chicago-1917-600x478.jpg" width="600" />'' <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17170" height="408" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gertrude-“Billie”-Murphy-22-is-brought-in-for-questioning-in-the-murder-case-of-Michael-Stopec-Chicago-c.1927-500x300-300x180.jpg" width="680" />  <img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-17175 aligncenter" height="150" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/On-Aug.-2-1926-Mae-Greene-18-was-chosen-as-Miss-Chicago-1926.-290x150.jpg" width="290" /> <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17176" height="408" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Women-in-Chicago-being-arrested-for-wearing-one-piece-bathing-suits-and-showing-a-little-leg.-1922.-500x300-300x180.jpg" width="680" />' <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17178 size-full" height="450" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/The-Auto-Wash-Bowl-in-Chicago.-1924.-600x450.jpg" width="600" />'  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17179" height="592" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Chicago-Illinois-1920s-Traffic-on-a-bridge.-300x261.jpg" width="680" />

Late 19th-century New York City was a magnet for the world’s immigrants, and the vast majority of them found not streets paved with gold but nearly subhuman squalor. While polite society turned a blind eye, brave reporters like the Danish-born Jacob Riis documented this shame of the Gilded Age. Riis did this by venturing into the city’s most ominous neighborhoods with his blinding magnesium flash powder lights, capturing the casual crime, grinding poverty and frightful overcrowding. Most famous of these was Riis’ image of a Lower East Side street gang, which conveys the danger that lurked around every bend. Such work became the basis of his revelatory book How the Other Half Lives, which forced Americans to confront what they had long ignored and galvanized reformers like the young New York politician Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote to the photographer, “I have read your book, and I have come to help.” Riis’ work was instrumental in bringing about New York State’s landmark Tenement House Act of 1901, which improved conditions for the poor. <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17108 size-full" height="480" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/be036581-1.jpg" width="614"> <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17109 size-large" height="843" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200915-1-1024x843.jpg" width="1024">

The end of the 19th century in the city of New York was a magnet for the immigrants of the world, and most of them found roads not bordered by gold but of almost inhuman poverty. While educated people turn a blind eye, brave reporters like Jacob Riis, born in Denmark, document the shame of the Golden Age. Riis does this by venturing into the city's most unpleasant environment with dazzling lights of magnesium dust, capturing common crimes, destroying the terrible poverty and density. The most famous is the image of Riis on the gang of Lower East Side Street, which conveys the danger that lurks at each step. Such work forms the basis of the book for the disclosure of How Half Other Lives, forcing Americans to confront what they have long ignored and galvanizing reformers like the young New York politician Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote to photographers: "I read your book, and I come to help." Riis' work was instrumental in the realization of the House Act of 1901, which was a landmark in New York, which improved conditions for the poor, and its focus Enthusiastic and confrontational style that led directly to the era of documentary and scandal. journalism <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16440" height="247" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200915-300x247.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16441" height="247" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200924_1-300x247.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16442" height="247" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200945-300x247.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16443" height="243" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200947-300x243.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16444" height="243" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200971-300x243.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16445" height="241" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny201000_0-300x241.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16446" height="244" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny201031-300x244.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16447" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny201071-241x300.jpg" width="241" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16448" height="240" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny201087-300x240.jpg" width="300" />

[caption id="attachment_16329" align="aligncenter" width="653"]<img alt="" class="wp-image-16329" height="455" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/makasar-police-office-300x209.jpg" width="653" /> Netherlands Indies Police Station in Makassar, 1897[/caption]  [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="622"]<img alt="" class="wp-image-16331" height="384" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1936-indie-women-kongres-300x185.jpg" width="622" /> Indonesian women's congress, 1936[/caption]  [caption id="attachment_16332" align="aligncenter" width="467"]<img alt="" class="wp-image-16332" height="602" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/raden-saleh-233x300.jpg" width="467" /> Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman (1807 or 1811 - April 23, 1880) an Indonesian painter[/caption]  [caption id="attachment_16334" align="aligncenter" width="665"]<img alt="" class="wp-image-16334" height="514" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/dendles-300x232.jpg" width="665" /> a construction for a railway tunnel in the mountains, Java (c. 1910)[/caption]  [caption id="attachment_16335" align="aligncenter" width="716"]<img alt="" class=" wp-image-16335" height="401" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/peserta-sumpah-pemuda_20171027_205614-300x168.jpg" width="716" /> youth of indonesian declaration (1928)[/caption]  [caption id="attachment_16336" align="aligncenter" width="747"]<img alt="" class=" wp-image-16336" height="389" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hari-pahlawan_20171110_094428-700x364-300x156.jpg" width="747" /> 10 November 1945 once upon a time[/caption]  [caption id="attachment_16338" align="aligncenter" width="770"]<img alt="" class=" wp-image-16338" height="578" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/kali-bagor-300x225.jpg" width="770" /> Kalibagor, Banyumas Central Java 1905. The Family Administrator of the Kalibagor Sugar Factory[/caption]  [caption id="attachment_16339" align="aligncenter" width="759"]<img alt="" class=" wp-image-16339" height="510" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bung-karno.jpeg" width="759" /> Ir. Soekarno, 1st indonesian's president (1945)[/caption]

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