From the skyscraper to the wildflower C.G. Hine's 1905 photographic survey of Broadway Nick Yablon

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yablon, Nick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hine, C. G. (Charles Gilbert), 1859-1931.

Hine, C. G.

Broadway (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century--Pictorial works.

Broadway (New York, N.Y.).

Architectural photography--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Architectural photography.

Urbanization--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Urbanization.

Architectural photography--History.

Urbanization--History.

New York (State)--New York--Broadway.

New York (State).

Genre:

Pictorial works

Physical Description:

1 online resource

illustration

Other Title:

C.G. Hine's 1905 photographic survey of Broadway

Place of Publication:

Columbia University Press, 2026.

New York Columbia University Press [2026]

Summary:

Throughout 1905, an amateur photographer dedicated himself to capturing Broadway, from the bottom of Manhattan to the top. In sun, rain, and snow, at dawn and late at night, C. G. Hine depicted buildings that were threatened by rapid development: outmoded stores, hotels, and theaters, as well as workshops and shanties. His survey also foregrounded the street's other holdouts against change, such as sex workers, pushcart vendors, horses, and the trees and wildflowers of upper Manhattan. Hine ultimately assembled more than three hundred photographs, along with numerous newspaper clippings and a typed essay, into a three-volume album, titled "From the Sky Scraper to the Wild Flower." Presenting striking images from Hine's album, this book offers a rare glimpse into the transformation of New York's built environment at the turn of the twentieth century. Nick Yablon explores Hine's connections to--and divergences from--movements and trends of the time, such as historic preservation, Pictorialist photography, botany, and bicycling. He curates a selection of Hine's photographs and investigates how they reveal deeper conflicts and tensions about urban development. From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower guides readers up Broadway block by block, casting light on New York's changing landscape, where signs of the modern clashed with vestiges of earlier eras

Contents:

Frontmatter CONTENTS Note to the Reader INTRODUCTION 1. THE BATTERY TO TWENTY- THIRD STREET 2. MADISON SQUARE TO 105TH STREET 3. [105TH STREET] TO THE WILD FLOWERS EPILOGUE: ON BROADWAY'S EDGES Acknowledgments Notes Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 29, 2026)

Contains:

Hine, C. G. (Charles Gilbert), 1859-1931. Works. Selections

Other Format:

Print version Yablon, Nick. From the skyscraper to the wildflower

Print version :

ISBN:

9780231565059

0231565054

9780231555098

0231555091

OCLC:

1592276375

Publisher Number:

CIPO000352502

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license