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 "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 "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 "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 Interior of the Residence of Lillian Russell, 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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.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 "A Piano by the Krakauer Piano Co., 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 "A mother and child in a hospital bed, New York, c.1937 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 "The Janer Family, Staff and Guests 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 "The Elbridge Thomas Gerry residence at 61st Street, from across 5th Avenue, New York 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-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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 - (MeisterDrucke-189583).jpg "Portrait of Miss Gresham 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-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-176242).jpg "Annette Kellerman by Byron Company")
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.jpg "View of the Crowd and a Horsedrawn Carriage in the Dewey Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York 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-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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.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 "The music room of the Louis XVI Suite at the Hotel St. Regis by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Dining Room at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Annie Russell by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The entrance and lobby of the Robert Treat Hotel, Newark, New Jersey, 1916 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Cooks Decorating Easter Eggs and Chicks in the Kitchen at Maillard")
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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 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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 - (MeisterDrucke-313799).jpg "Ian Maclaren 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 "Four Women Seated at Pianos at the Estey Piano Corporation, 1908 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-199928).jpg "A woman walking down a sidewalk, New York, 1896-98 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Women tagging bags of laundry at the Carolyn Laundry, East Harlem, New York, 1928 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-267609).jpg "Reception room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1915 or 1916 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Naval Reserves at Fishers Island, New York with a Group of Sailors in a Rowing Boat, 1898 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-293550).jpg "Anna Held 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 "American Naval Officer Admiral William Thomas Sampson, Havana, 1902 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Ethel Barrymore sitting in the living room, 1902 or 1903 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Portrait of an unidentified woman at a desk in an office in New York by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-284678).jpg "Kitchen Staff at the Hotel Manhattan by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-166375).jpg "Waiters in the Palm Court at Sherry")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-272186).jpg "Alice Nielsen, c.1898 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-206693).jpg "Eva Fay at Hammerstein")
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.jpg "Mrs. Leslie Carter Seated with a Woman Reading a Crystal Ball, 1904 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "The Procession Associated with the Dedication of Grant")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-243746).jpg "The Wine Cellar of the Hotel Manhattan, 1902 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-160377).jpg "Dining Room at the Hotel Knickerbocker, 1906 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Portrait of an unidentified man and woman at the James Hazen Hyde Ball, New York, January 31, 1905 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 "Portrait of the dentist Dr. Gibson and three women in his residence by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-187656).jpg "Cooks Working in the Kitchen at Maillard")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-150807).jpg "Piano Recital, New York 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-229355).jpg "Miss Murray Louise Todd, 1915-6 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-173106).jpg "Woman playing the piano while three girls sing at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 East 59th Street, New York, c.1917 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-179548).jpg "Mrs. I. M. Clark at the piano, 1904 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-146194).jpg "Mrs. Robert Osborn by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-145886).jpg "Portrait of Mrs. I. M. Clark standing by a piano, 1904 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "President William Howard Taft with Professor Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale University and Another Man, 1900-20 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Two Actresses in Costume Rehearsing on the Roof of What is Probably the New York Theatre, New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Tables set for the Electric Club")
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.jpg "The Hotel Navarre, 7th Avenue and 38th Street, New York 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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.jpg "Will R. Barnes in a robe, seated at his desk in his studio, 1903 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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 - (MeisterDrucke-208297).jpg "Young boys with flags marching in a parade at Dobbs Ferry, New York, 1898 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-241807).jpg "E. W. Eton Working on a Painting, 1907 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 "Two African American Women Weighing Bags of Laundry at the Carolyn Laundry, East Harlem, New York, 1928 by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-185673).jpg "Hettie Green by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-191626).jpg "Parade with children and firemen marching in Dobbs Ferry, New York, 1898 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-205993).jpg "A female model posing in the studio of illustrator Malcolm Strauss, c.1895 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "A scene from an amateur production of an unidentified play presented at Barnard College, New York 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-186623).jpg "David Belasco writing at a desk in the offices of his theatre, 1902 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-174932).jpg "Miss Alice Kauser, 1910 by Byron Company")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-318180).jpg "Emma Dunn by Byron Company")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-147524).jpg "Lounge at the Hotel Knickerbocker, 1906 by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Ernest Thompson at home in New York by Byron Company")
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.jpg "Marconi and His Wireless Telegraph Apparatus, 1899-1900 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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.jpg "Women packaging patterns at McCall")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-275168).jpg "Marshal Foch on SS")
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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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.jpg "View of children playing on playground equipment at Tompkins Square Park, on Arbor Day, 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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 - (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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