newsstand

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/35490675605/

Thanks for connecting up the images. A pretty good shot of a newsstand, as well! We'll add information to the description at our end.

a sundae for 10 cents? awesome! :D

More about the photographer, Berenice Abbott (1898-1991): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_Abbott

Our assignment-to select a photo that represents the future of media or media management-could essentially yield a variety of photos, as shown by the array of photos that the class has already selected. Some may wonder how this old photograph plays into the future of media, but I strongly believe that, while newspapers are gradually becoming obsolete, the media will eventually make a full cycle and bring the newspaper back. The theory behind my prediction is the tetrad of media effects, which I learned about in a previous communication theory class. Essentially, this tetrad questions what a certain medium enhances, makes obsolete, retrieves, and flips into when pushed to extremes. I believe that, some day, print media will be retrieved in some way, shape, or form. -Karen Bonanno, BTMM 1655

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called NEWSSTAND/QUIOSCOS DE PRENSA, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Invitada a - Invited to

NEWSSTAND-QUIOSCOS DE PRENSA
Gracias por añadir tu foto /Thanks for add !

Fine documentary photo of the 1920s.

and they are still in business today, the company that is

this is brilliant; love the headlines!

News posters are the best! We have some two great ones on our "other" flickr photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/yournlireland/sets/7215762672045487...

wow, never realised easons was around for so long!

No, this is a street. At left, an elevated section of metro or elevated train over the road. Under the track, streetcars are running. At right there is a stair that looks like an access to an station.

Thanks tgva325 for your sharp observation of the scene. We'll fix the title in the source data and reload the description.

I do not think this is Boston. As far as I know, there have only been a couple old elevated streetcar lines, and I do not recall any of them looking like this. The second paragraph on the link below indicates that this picture may well have been taken in Sioux City: genforum.genealogy.com/sellon/messages/101.html

As far as I can see, the streetcars are running UNDER the bridge, which is for an elevated electric train, like those in New York, Chicago and Boston. Sioux City elevated railway was closed in 1899 and as far as I know, it hadn´t streetcars tracks under it.

It could certainly be Boston. The sign in the upper right references the Boston Candy Store. Also, there were elevated railways in Boston beyond just the portion of the Green and Red Lines that remain above ground and elevated. What's now the Orange Line was at one point elevated, too. The Essex Street station was a copper-clad building, now preserved at the Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. It would be interesting to see if the steel girders matched the preserved station. That said, if this is Boston, it's most likely near North Station.