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 "Hotel Delmonico at 44th Street and 5th Avenue, New York, 1898 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 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 "Chef in the kitchen at Janer")
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.jpg "The Janer Family, Staff and Guests at Janer")
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.jpg "A Piano by the Krakauer Piano Co., 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 "The Governor")
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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 "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 "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 "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 "Mabel Taliaferro working on a sculpture in her studio, New York, c.1916 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 "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 "Three women and a man walking at the Narragansett Pier with itinerant photographer")
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.jpg "William Norris Applying Makeup for His Character of the King")
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.jpg "A prizefighter en route to the ring at Manhattan Beach, 1895 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-176242).jpg "Annette Kellerman 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-194001).jpg "Blind man placing iron hoops on brooms at the Bourne Memorial Building, New York, 1921 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The confectionery department at Sherry")
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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 "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 "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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.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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.jpg "The Elbridge Thomas Gerry residence at 61st Street, from across 5th Avenue, New York 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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.jpg "Men and women in an open office at Parke, Davis und Co., chemists, Hudson und Vestry Streets, New York, 1910 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Mutual Film Co., 1600 Broadway, New York, 1918 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-218907).jpg "The Viennese Roof at the Hotel St. Regis, 1937 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Aerial view of men marching in the Republican Gold Standard Parade on Broadway at City Hall Park, 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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 - (MeisterDrucke-164940).jpg "Blind men recaning chairs at the Bourne Memorial Building, New York, 1920 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-165972).jpg "A Man Playing a Player Piano in a Piano Showroom in New York, 1907 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-190102).jpg "View of West Point cadets in the Dewey Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York, 1899 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of Police Marching in a New York City Police Parade, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Five children playing and drinking at fountain in Madison Square, New York, 1901 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Men working in the printing plant at Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Chefs cooking at Sherry")
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.jpg "View of the St. Patrick")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-305064).jpg "William Courtenay, 1914 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Grand Union Hotel at 4th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, 1904 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Procession Associated with the Dedication of Grant")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-284678).jpg "Kitchen Staff at the Hotel Manhattan by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-177045).jpg "Portrait of Jobyna Howland, 1908-9 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of the Hotel Majestic at 72nd Street from Across Central Park West, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Portrait of the author Lorimer Stoddard with his wife and son, New York by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-257015).jpg "The Lobby at the Hotel McAlpin, 1913 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Dining Room at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-196844).jpg "Table Set for a Banquet at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel 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 "Offices at the Publisher")
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.jpg "David Belasco standing holding a dictionary, after 1909 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Rear Admiral Robley Dunglison Evans on the Deck of the U.S.S. Maine, 1906 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 "A young actor in the costume of Julius Caesar of the set of an amateur production of Julius Caesar 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 "Men Working in the Hardman, Peck and Co. Piano Factory, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-197221).jpg "A scene from The Junior Show, an amateur production presented by underclassmen at Barnard College, New York c.1905 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Edna Wallace Hopper posed in a boxing ring with Jack Cooper at his gymnasium at Broadway and 37th Street, New York, 1899 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-233163).jpg "A Hardman Peck and Co. Player Piano, 1907 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Procession Associated with the Dedication of Grant")
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.jpg "View of railroad tracks and machinery at the construction of the Panama Canal, 1912 or 1913 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of a peddler on 7th Avenue, New York by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-280459).jpg "Kyrle Bellew and friend at the piano in Bellew")
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.jpg "Group of Men of the National Cash Register Co. Posed in Front of the Broadway and 28th Street Branch, New York, 1916 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Cooks Working in the Kitchen at Maillard")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-162118).jpg "Exhibit of life boats by the Welin Quadrant Davit Co. and Lane und De Groot Co. at the Museum of Safety Appliances of the American Institute of Social Service, New York, 1908 by Byron Company")
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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 "The Andrew Carnegie Mansion from 5th Avenue at 91st Street, 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-284576).jpg "The Ladies")
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.jpg "View of a Polar Bear in a Cage at the Central Park Zoo, New York, 1898 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Clarence Mackay with his children in the library of Harbor Hill, in Roslyn, Long Island by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-197287).jpg "Men and women working at desks in an office at McCall")
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.jpg "Amelia Summerville in costume as the")
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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 "Prizefighter Robert Prometheus Fitzsimmons at Dr. Woodbury")
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