- unitid
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{"value"=>"973", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 973", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1881/1917", "value"=>"1881-1917"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1881
- date_inclusive_end
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1917
- keydate
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1881
- date_start
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1881
- date_end
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1917
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"B.J. Falk papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4 linear feet (4 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Benjamin J. Falk (1853-1925) was an American photographer active in New York City during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Collection consists of Falk's record books and autograph album. Record books, 1881-1917, contain information about his portrait studio clients. Many were prominent New Yorkers, including theatrical persons and members of the German-Jewish community. Autograph album contains inscriptions dating from 1895-1897 and 1914-1915."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>B.J. Falk papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Falk, B. J. (Benjamin J.), 1853-1925", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Benjamin J. Falk, photographer, was active in New York City during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His portrait studio was at Twenty-Third Street and Broadway, on the site where the Flatiron Building stands today. After he left Twenty-Third Street (probably around 1902, when the Flatiron Building was completed) Falk had an establishment at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel</p> <p>Falk was born in 1853, and graduated City College of the City University of New York in 1872. He was described at his death in 1925 as \"one of the leading New York photographers\" (obituary, <em render=\"underline\">New York Times</em>, March 21, 1925, p. 13).</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>Six record books, contain the names, addresses, orders, amounts charged (accounts were apparently kept in separate accounts ledgers, not included in this collection), and negative and duplicate numbers of Falk's portrait studio clients. Many of these clients were wealthy and prominent New Yorkers. The theatrical profession and New York's German-Jewish community are heavily represented. Members of the Guggenheim, Lewisohn, Straus, and Sulzberger families; actors Aubrey and Dion Boucicault, Lillie Langtry, Richard Mansfield, Julia Marlowe, Alla Nazimova, and Lillian Russell; and such disparate celebrities as Thomas Edison (who was a frequent sitter from the 1880s to the 1910s), Henry Ford, Jay Gould, and Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan are among those whose names appear.</p> <p>Falk's autograph album contains inscriptions dating from 1895-1897 and 1914-1915. Names of some of the signers also appear in the record books.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Accessioned by J. Miller, January 27, 1989</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Falk's photographs of New York City and vicinity, ca. 1870s-1880s, are located in the Mirian & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints & Photographs at the New York Public Library</p>"}
- extent_statement
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4 linear feet (4 boxes)