Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Auction Sale Plot No. 2 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
May 23, 1908 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Original B&W print on black cardboard mount. View of an open field with a large tent at right; a crowd of people (mostly men, with a few women and children) stand or sit with their backs to the camera. All of the men wear suits and hats. In the center of the image is a man standing at a podium; he appears to be reading from a paper. In the distance is a row of trees in bloom. Printed inscription at bottom of photo: "AUCTION SALE PLOT NO 2. DECKER HEIGHTS / MAY 23-08. H.J. SHARRETT. AUCTIONEER." (Keywords: New York City, Early Twentieth Century) |
Print size |
6.5 x 8.5 |
Acquisition |
From Horatio J. Sharrett |
Ownership and History |
Horatio J. Sharrett (1870-1946) was a real estate and insurance agent with an office on Richmond Avenue in Port Richmond, Staten Island. A brief article in the New York Times of March 8, 1908, described another of Mr. Sharrett's auctions of property in the same Port Richmond neighborhood: "H.J. Sharrett will sell at auction on Saturday, March 21, in Masonic Hall, Port Richmond, several Staten Island properties. Among the parcels to be offered are thirty lots at Decker Heights, on Decker and Lexington Avenues and Catharine Street..." |
Earliest Date |
1908 |
Latest Date |
1908 |
Subjects |
Auctioneers Auctions Real estate business |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Sharrett, Horatio Judah |
Catalog Number |
36.015.0003 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, October 2015. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |