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 "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 "The Governor")
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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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.jpg "A Piano by the Krakauer Piano Co., New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Janer Family, Staff and Guests at Janer")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-222576).jpg "Martha Morton at Home, 1902 by Byron Company")
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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 "The Interior of the Residence of Lillian Russell, New York 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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.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 "A mother and child in a hospital bed, New York, c.1937 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-221610).jpg "A Nurse Washing Her Hands by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Chef in the kitchen at Janer")
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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 "Mabel Taliaferro working on a sculpture in her studio, New York, c.1916 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Recital in the Music Room at Janer")
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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 "Chinese Statesman Li Hung-Chang on His Visit to the U.S., 1896 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-144837).jpg "Group of young blind women playing ukeleles at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York, 1926 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-206693).jpg "Eva Fay at Hammerstein")
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.jpg "Amelia Summerville in costume as the")
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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-204884).jpg "A man on a rooftop dressed in a traditional military uniform, holding a rifle by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-190900).jpg "Women playing a player piano and a violin, New York, 1907 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-303357).jpg "Ian Maclaren, 1899 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Mrs. Clarence Mackay and child in the portico of Harbor Hill, Long Island 1898-1910 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Andrew Carnegie Mansion from 5th Avenue at 91st Street, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "A press room at the McCall Publishing Co., New York, 1913 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-295728).jpg "The Laundry Room at the Hotel McAlpin, 1913 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-201188).jpg "Malcolm Strauss in his studio in New York, c.1895 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Marconi and His Wireless Telegraph Apparatus, 1899-1900 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-181790).jpg "A showroom of the New England Piano Co., 1895 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-148394).jpg "Marshall P. Wilder listening to a record on a victrola in his office by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Group portrait at the James Hazen Hyde Ball, New York, January 31, 1905 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Blind Man Bowling at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Thomas Edison and His Second Wife in His Laboratory, 1906 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Sailors from the U.S.S.")
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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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.jpg "Young Blind Visually Impaired Children with a Female Teacher in the Nursery at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-199580).jpg "View of Admiral Sampson in a carriage in the Dewey Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York by Byron Company")
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_1902_(silver_gelatin_print)_-_(MeisterDrucke-150548).jpg "Virginia Harned (Mrs. E.H. Sothern, 1st), 1902 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Men working in an office at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-151833).jpg "Labour leader John Burns by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-173147).jpg "Panoramic view from above of a range of snowcapped mountains, and what appears to be the rim of a volcano, presumably on or near the Panama Canal, 1913 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Three women and a man walking at the Narragansett Pier with itinerant photographer")
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.jpg "View of young women in a cart in the Street Cleaners")
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.jpg "Blind young women and a teacher sewing in a classroom at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York, 1921 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Dining room at the residence of Mr. Reginald de Koven, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-150292).jpg "Interior view of men working with leather at the New York Leather Belting Co., New York, 1905 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Portrait of a blind, deaf and dumb young woman spinning wool at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th St., New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-235264).jpg "May Robson, 1901 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Professor Atkinson with a Male Patient, 1898 by Byron Company")
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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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-284678).jpg "Kitchen Staff at the Hotel Manhattan by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Two babies sitting up in bed, one being supported by a nurse, the other holding a toy car and crying at the Maternity Center Association at 70th Street East River, New York, 1935 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of a Woman Feeding a Squirrel While a Man Looks On in the Snow at Central Park, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-186683).jpg "Women packaging candy at Maillard")
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.jpg "Women on the Loom Floor at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-180279).jpg "Florence Reed by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Young men working in a mailroom at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue, New York, 1907 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-223905).jpg "Madame Schumann Heink seated at a piano by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Blind Man Labeling Brooms at the Bourne Memorial Building, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The music room of the Louis XVI Suite at the Hotel St. Regis by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The confectionery department at Sherry")
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.jpg "Maude Fealy seated at a typewriter, c.1915 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-178342).jpg "A group in costume at the home of Miss Morgenthau, 30 West 72nd Street, New York, 1906 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "People on park benches in Union Square, New York, 1898 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Tables set for the Electric Club")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-179433).jpg "Interior view of young men peering out of bathing stalls at the People")
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.jpg "Men and Women with Children at a Drinking Fountain in Madison Square Park, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Taylor of")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-243746).jpg "The Wine Cellar of the Hotel Manhattan, 1902 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-165594).jpg "Women seated for a meal in the dining at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-162500).jpg "View of a Woman Pushing Children on the Swings at Tompkins Square Park, on Arbor Day, New York, 1904 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Rear Admiral Robley Dunglison Evans and Captain John Elliott Pillsbury on the Deck of the U.S.S. Marine, 1906 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Lobby and Registration Desk at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Women wearing white smocks, in a sewing class, presumably during or associated with World War I, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Men and Women Working at Desks in an Office at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue, New York, 1907 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 "Portrait of Eva Booth at the grave of her father, General William Booth, c.1915 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "William Chase Teaching an Art Class of Female Students by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-166878).jpg "Professor Atkinson, an English Bone Setter, with a Male Patient by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Mrs. William Astor residence, 5th Avenue and 34th Street, New York by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-294883).jpg "Crystal Herne by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-195425).jpg "Drake in His Studio with a Painting of Lions in Progress, New York, 1907 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-202504).jpg "Mary Tillinghast Painting a Portrait in Her Studio, New York, c.1897 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Men Filling Orders in an Office at Parke, Davis and Co., Chemists, Hudson and Vestry Streets, New York, 1910 by Byron Company")
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