Back on Monday, I posted the above flyer about the Tompkins Square Library presenting a walking tour of Tompkins Square Park this Saturday morning from 10-11. (Find all the details at the Library's website here.)
Anyway, I was taking a closer look at the image on the flyer...
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The piece is titled "Popular Concert In Tompkins Square, N.Y." and dated 1891. The illustrator was Thure de Thulstrup, a Swedish-born illustrator who contributed to Harper's Weekly, where this piece appeared.
The info with the photo at the NYPL doesn't mention what kind of concert this was (likely German music, per the Bowery Boys).
The illustration is part of the NYPL Digital Collections.
Updated 3/29
This image was dated from the 1870s... showing St. Brigid's...
8 comments:
And 108 years later... http://evgrieve.com/2014/10/rave-like-its-1999-in-tompkins-square.html
man! wish this was tonight!
I think I see Jerry drinking a 40oz in there.
Eden Bee...times have changed...now he would be seen with a 4 loco instead of a 40 oz.
Nowadays you have to go all the way over to Zum Schneider for German music in Kleine Deutschland, alas
I wonder if the double spires on the upper right could be St Brigid's. And I like to think that's the Krishna Tree as a sapling next to the baby carriage.
I do think that's St. Brigid's with the crocheted steeple(s)... I have a photo of the church from 1870 that I'll post here...
Or maybe he is drinking Nerve Tonic. Its good for what ails ya.
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