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 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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.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 "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 "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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 - (MeisterDrucke-221610).jpg "A Nurse Washing Her Hands by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-222576).jpg "Martha Morton at Home, 1902 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 "A mother and child in a hospital bed, New York, c.1937 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 "The Interior of the Residence of Lillian Russell, 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 "Chef in the kitchen 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 "Recital in the Music Room at Janer")
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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-281491).jpg "The laundry room at the Hotel McAlpin, 1913 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of the explosion from blowing up the Gamboa Dike during the construction of the Panama Canal, 1913 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Lobby and Registration Desk at the Hotel Victoria by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of West Point cadets in the Dewey Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York 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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.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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.jpg "Two men, pony and cart, New York, 1910 or 1911 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-206693).jpg "Eva Fay at Hammerstein")
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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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.jpg "Men Shoveling Coal into the Furnaces at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue, New York, 1907 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "A Scene from an Amateur Production of a Play Titled The Butterflies Presented at Barnard College, New York 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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 - (MeisterDrucke-202897).jpg "A Scene from an Amateur Revue Titled Barnardesia Presented at Barnard College, New York 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 "View of young women in a cart in the Street Cleaners")
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.jpg "The Hotel Pennsylvania, 7th Avenue and 32nd Street, 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 "Amelia Summerville in costume as the")
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.jpg "Windsor Hotel at 5th Avenue from 46th to 47th Streets, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-158550).jpg "A Room at the Westmoreland Davis Residence in Tuxedo Park, New York 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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 - (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-195140).jpg "View of General Roe and the Governor")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-187152).jpg "Portrait of the portrait painter Richard Hall, 1903 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 Hotel Victoria, South East Corner of Broadway and 27th Street, New York, 1900 or 1901 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of Women with Children Shopping at a Fruit and Vegetable Stand at 266 7th Avenue, New York, c.1900 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-190046).jpg "View of Women Buying Vegetables from a Peddler on the Street, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "A Scene from an Amateur Production of a Play Titled School by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Maude Fealy seated at a typewriter, c.1915 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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.jpg "Interior View of Women at Dictating Machines at the New York Edison Co. at 55 Duane Street, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "An Actress in Costume Rehearsing on the Roof of What is Probably the New York Theatre, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of Large Digging Machines Working on the Construction of the Panama Canal 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 "Edgar Smith with his daughter on the steps of his residence in Elmhurst, Long Island, 1902-3 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-182636).jpg "Monthly Dance at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "A scene from an amateur production of a play titled The Royal Family 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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 - (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-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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.jpg "An actress in costume rehearsing on the roof of what is probably the New York Theatre, New York, 1900 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Lobby and Registration Desk at the Hoffman House Hotel 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-223905).jpg "Madame Schumann Heink seated at 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 "Portrait of Robert Abram Bartlett by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Group of young men and women posed at the People")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-295728).jpg "The Laundry Room at the Hotel McAlpin, 1913 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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 - (MeisterDrucke-235264).jpg "May Robson, 1901 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Steward and assistant at Sherry")
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.jpg "The Andrew Carnegie Mansion from 5th Avenue at 91st Street, New York by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-202592).jpg "Florence Reed 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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 - (MeisterDrucke-179433).jpg "Interior view of young men peering out of bathing stalls at the People")
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.jpg "Women packaging patterns at McCall")
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.jpg "Children watching an entertainer on Arbor Day at Tompkins Square Park, New York, 1904 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-153591).jpg "Blind man fastening straw on broom handles at the Bourne Memorial Building, New York, 1921 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Men working in a sorting room at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue, New York, 1907 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-314547).jpg "Men Working in the Harrington Piano Co. Factory, 1907 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "A women")
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.jpg "The South West Room of the Penthouse at the Hotel St. Regis 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 "Thomas Edison and His Second Wife in His Laboratory, 1906 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-210003).jpg "View of the Crowd and a Horsedrawn Carriage in the Dewey Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York, 1899 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Main entrance of the Hotel Pennsylvania, 7th Avenue and 32nd Street, New York, 1919 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-197287).jpg "Men and women working at desks in an office at McCall")
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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 "Aerial View of City Hall Park, City Hall and the Post Office by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Children playing in the playroom at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York, 1935 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-321440).jpg "Elsie Ferguson, 1917 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Copyphotograph of an Earlier Scrapbook Page with Two Images of the Naval Reserves at Fishers Island, New York, 1895 by Byron Company")
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