Robert Louis Bracklow was born in Germany in 1849. He came to New York City at age 4 with his parents. Little is known of Bracklow’s personality or interests. Edward Steichen, a fellow Camera Club member, remembered that Bracklow was afraid of the dark, earning the nickname “Daylight Bob.”
Molly Granger (1845–1940), a New York public school teacher, was Bracklow’s romantic companion for most of his adult life. When Bracklow died in 1919, his possessions were left to Molly Granger.
These vintage photos were taken by Robert Louis Bracklow that show street scenes of New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
23-21 Pearl Street, Manhattan, New York, circa 1890
Cheap Grocery Store (demolished in 1891, replaced by the Liberty Storage Warehouse) at 43 West 64th Street, Manhattan, New York, circa 1890
The Elephant Hotel was a seven-story structure on Surf Avenue and West 12th Street, Coney Island, Brooklyn from 1885 until 1896, when it burnt down in a fire, New York, 1892
Rocking Stone in Bronx Zoo, New York, 1895
The Grahl Portrait Studio at 200 W 34th St, just west of the corner of Seventh Avenue, New York, 1898
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