Lively Street Life Outside the Dallas Morning News Building — ca. 1900
by Paula Bosse
Commerce & Lamar (click for larger image) (DeGolyer Library, SMU)
by Paula Bosse
A photo showing the bustling streets surrounding the newly-expanded Dallas Morning News building, back when it was located at Commerce and Lamar streets. Below, a closer look at turn-of-the-century pedestrian traffic. Click pictures for larger images.
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I love the man on the far left … contemplating posting a few illicit bills?
Those curbs!
Journos.
A woman either stooped by age or bending over to pick something up, a woman with a carpet bag, and a high-off-the-ground buggy which illustrates one reason those curbs needed to be so high.
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Photo titled “The Dallas Morning News building, Commerce & Lamar” from the Belo Records 1842-2007 collection, DeGolyer Library, Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University; it can be viewed here.
Other views of the building from 1900 can be seen in these posts:
- “Loitering In Front of The Dallas Morning News Building — ca. 1900, here
- “The Dallas Morning News Building, Inside and Out — ca. 1900,” here
More posts where I’ve zoomed in on historic Dallas photos can be found here.
Click pictures for larger images.
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Copyright © 2015 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Yes that is the edge of the Victorian age with with the rusticated stone work of the old news paper, great building, i had worked on the in the mid 80s and saw all of the original photos from that age and it was a grand Dallas era, the newspaper is really the oldest them of our culture still today…
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The Dallas Morning News came too Dallas around 1883, and opened up in 1885 as the record should say, in what was a center of the city of Dallas at the time.the land mark building was in many of the interior shows of George Bannerman Dealey when he would sit in his same chair for decades and work on the scrap books on the news paper, these scrap books went to the Hall of State in 1985…
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Does anyone know why telephone and power poles in the period of this interesting photograph are seen not infrequently wrapped with wire from just above their base to seven-odd feet up? I think it’s to dissuade horses from chomping on the poles, but an equestrian friend found this idea doubtful. At least two poles in this image are so treated. Anyone got another idea?
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