Soon after entering the USA in 1888, Joseph Byron, who was born in London, began to make his own way with press photos. In 1892 he opened the New York City Photo Studio in Manhattan with his son Percy Claude.
While Joseph Byron specialized in taking pictures of theatre scenes, Percy Claude established himself as a naval photographer, especially with shots of large ocean liners and ship crews. He received an official commission for pictures of the maiden voyage of the passenger steamer "Normandy", 1935.
Both father and son convincingly documented the atmosphere of the metropolis New York with their photographs. As visual witnesses of the period around the turn of the century up to the early 1940s, they reflected the life and culture of the metropolis in a unique way. Alongside and in their preferred subjects, they are pictures of people of all kinds and occupations,
Protagonists of everyday life in all its diversity, which come together in this photographic work like a mosaic. This also includes portraits of prominent representatives of public life in private interiors or outside them.
But the room itself is also a theme. It ranges from the workshop workplace to the silhouette of the New York skyline. One of these spectacular photos shows an aerial view of City Hall and the Post Office. From a distance or up close: It is the immediacy, the snapshot and the realistic scene that makes these photos so credible.
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.jpg "Fashion Photograph of a Woman Modelling a Hat, New York, 1890-1910 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Hotel Delmonico at 44th Street and 5th Avenue, New York, 1898 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and the J. J. Astor Residence along 5th Avenue at 33rd and 34th Street, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-222576).jpg "Martha Morton at Home, 1902 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Governor")
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.jpg "A Piano by the Krakauer Piano Co., New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Cooks working in the kitchen of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel at 34th Street and 5th Avenue, New York, 1903 or 1904 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Men and one woman working at desks in an office at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "A mother and child in a hospital bed, New York, c.1937 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Chef in the kitchen at Janer")
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.jpg "View of the Crowds Near the Waldorf Astoria Hotel at 34th Street During the Dewey Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York, 1899 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-221610).jpg "A Nurse Washing Her Hands by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Interior of the Residence of Lillian Russell, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Janer Family, Staff and Guests at Janer")
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.jpg "African American man playing the organ at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Interior view of an open office floor at Perkins, Goodwin und Co. at 72 5th Avenue, New York, c.1905 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Girls working on a rooftop vegetable garden, Manhattan Bridge visible beyond, New York, 1910 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Recital in the Music Room at Janer")
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.jpg "Mabel Taliaferro working on a sculpture in her studio, New York, c.1916 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Elbridge Thomas Gerry residence at 61st Street, from across 5th Avenue, New York by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-164781).jpg "The kitchen at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, c.1910-11 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-176242).jpg "Annette Kellerman by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-166375).jpg "Waiters in the Palm Court at Sherry")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-267609).jpg "Reception room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1915 or 1916 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-199281).jpg "Man teaching another man basketmaking at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-199928).jpg "A woman walking down a sidewalk, New York, 1896-98 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Amelia Summerville in costume as the")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-204884).jpg "A man on a rooftop dressed in a traditional military uniform, holding a rifle by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Group of girls and a woman at the Hudson Bank Gymnasium and Playground, 53rd Street and 11th Avenue, New York, 1898 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-256892).jpg "Alla Nazimova by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Cooks Decorating Easter Eggs and Chicks in the Kitchen at Maillard")
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.jpg "Women Working at the Hardman, Peck and Co. Piano Factory, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Group Portrait of Sydney Dillon Ripley with Three Others at the James Hazen Hyde Ball, New York, January 31, 1905 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-194914).jpg "The Head Waiter at Sherry")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-187656).jpg "Cooks Working in the Kitchen at Maillard")
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.jpg "Chefs eating lunch at Sherry")
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.jpg "A Young Man Working in the Harrington Piano Co. Factory, 1907 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-206693).jpg "Eva Fay at Hammerstein")
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.jpg "Thomas Edison Standing Next to a Phonograph in His Laboratory, 1920 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Cooks at the broiler in the kitchen of the Hotel Commodore, 1919 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-243746).jpg "The Wine Cellar of the Hotel Manhattan, 1902 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-173729).jpg "The kitchen at the Hotel Manhattan, 1902 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-199643).jpg "The meat house at Hotel Delmonico, 1902 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-301010).jpg "Portrait of Hazel Dawn by Byron Company")
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.jpg "A prizefighter en route to the ring at Manhattan Beach, 1895 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-257859).jpg "The confectionery department at Hotel Delmonico, 1902 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-166449).jpg "Madame Frances Saville at Home, 1895 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Chinese Statesman Li Hung-Chang on His Visit to the U.S., 1896 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Group Portrait of Mr. Barton Willing, Miss Alice Blight, Miss Eleanor Jay (Mrs. Arthur Iselin), Miss Therese Iselin and Another Man at the James Hazen Hyde Ball, New York, January 31, 1905 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of the Crowd and a Marching Military Group in the Dewey Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-182152).jpg "Portrait of Otto Kahn posed on a horse on the bridle path in Central Park, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-189583).jpg "Portrait of Miss Gresham by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Cooks Working in the Kitchen at Maillard")
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.jpg "Tables set for the Electric Club")
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.jpg "A formally dressed man and woman and what appears to be a domestic servant in a room with a piano by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Marconi and His Wireless Telegraph Apparatus, 1899-1900 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Two African American Women Weighing Bags of Laundry at the Carolyn Laundry, East Harlem, New York, 1928 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Interior View of Boys in a Waiting Room at the People")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-145966).jpg "View from Above of the Crowd and a Marching Military Group in the Dewey Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-165334).jpg "Robert Edeson, His Wife and Daughter at the Piano, c.1915 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-281491).jpg "The laundry room at the Hotel McAlpin, 1913 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-258128).jpg "Miss Margaret Mayo and Friend, 1903 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-258036).jpg "Hotel Records Office, New York, 1908 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-184831).jpg "An Asian Female Fashion Model Wearing a Kimono at the Strauss Studio, New York, 1903 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-254783).jpg "Artist Working on a Painting, 1907 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-144510).jpg "Portrait of Lola Fisher, c.1915 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-178259).jpg "Backstage at the Irving Palace Theatre, New York, during a performance of")
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.jpg "People on park benches in Union Square, New York, 1898 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The cast of an amateur production of a play titled The Critic presented at Barnard College, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "A scene from an amateur production of a play titled The Manoeuvers of Jane presented at Barnard College, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-156621).jpg "Briarcliff Lodge Bakery by Byron Company")
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.jpg "A nurse demonstrating a special apparatus with tubes and supply and refuse buckets at Sloan Maternity Hospital, Broadway and 168th Street, New York, 1932 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Chef Leoni and Miss Selley of Toronto in the Kitchen of the Hotel Commodore by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Elliott or Her Female Relative by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Taken from the Stage of an Audience at a Coloured Party in the Auditorium of the New York Association for the Blind, 111 New York East 59th Street, New York, 1937 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Lillian Russell in costume on the set of a production at Proctor")
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.jpg "Men Working in an Office at Maillard")
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.jpg "Two Men in the Office of the Chief Engineers of R. Martens und Co. Inc, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of Women Buying Vegetables and Inspecting Eggs, from a Peddler on Hester Street, New York, 1898 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Group portrait of female employees with one man, presumably Mr. Maillard, at Maillard")
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.jpg "Women typing in an office of the Mantle Co. of America, New York, 1915 or 1916 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Annie Russell by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-321869).jpg "Double staircase at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1913 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Interior View of Women at Dictating Machines at the New York Edison Co., 55 Duane Street, New York, 1910 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-269961).jpg "Kahleen MacDonell by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Adults and children holding flags standing around a newly dug hole for a tree planting on Arbor Day at Tompkins Square Park, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "People in an Auditorium at the New York Association for the Blind with Christmas Tree and People Possibly Performing a Skit on Stage with Organ by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-272186).jpg "Alice Nielsen, c.1898 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of the St. Patrick")
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.jpg "Mrs. Leslie Carter Seated with a Woman Reading a Crystal Ball, 1904 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-185140).jpg "Eight Costumed Women Posed in and Around an Automobile on a Stage with a Landscape Backdrop, Presumably in the Performance of")
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.jpg "View of Boys Playing Basketball on a Court at Tompkins Square Park on Arbor Day, New York, 1904 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-151988).jpg "Group of Three Young Blind Women, One at the Piano, Two Playing Violins, at the New York Association for the Blind by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Police Marching in a New York City Police Parade, New York, 1898 by Byron Company")
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