I found some beautiful photographs from the Jessie Tarbox Beals photograph collection in the New York Historical Society Museum & Library to share with you!

This is Anne Haviland, the parfumier, evidently hard at work:

New York Historical Society Museum & Library. Jessie Tarbox Beals photograph collection, circa 1905-1940

And this is Miss Nanette Beals, age one, in her mother’s office at 71 W 23. The date was April 10, 1912, which is, I believe, five days before the Titanic went down. I’m guessing this was the photographer’s daughter?

New York Historical Society Museum & Library. Jessie Tarbox Beals photograph collection, circa 1905-1940

And finally, we have men and women partaking of a spaghetti dinner at Grace Godwin’s Garret, which was located at 58 Washington Square South in Greenwich Village. Grace Godwin can be seen serving spaghetti.

New York Historical Society Museum & Library. Jessie Tarbox Beals photograph collection, circa 1905-1940

I looked into this just a little bit and found Grace Godwin’s garret was the place to be in the 1920s. From UntappedCities.com, “During the late 1880s, the home was occupied by New York Governor Lucius Robinson. In the 1910s, No. 58 was home to a popular candy and cigar shop on the ground floor and Guido Bruno’s Garret on the second floor, where local artists exhibited their work. The frame buildings were reportedly heavily damaged in a fire in 1916, in which Bruno lost many historical items of great value, including unpublished manuscripts by Bernard Shaw and Mark Twain.(!)
The buildings were apparently salvaged following the fire in 1916. By 1917, Grace Godwin had taken over the upstairs of No. 58, where she served breakfast, afternoon tea, spaghetti dinners, and after-dinner coffee.”

Since this was the bohemian area, I thought there might be something interesting on the mantle, if I could zoom in enough to see it.  I think the handwritten sign says, This Place Ain’t Bohemian.

I found a few more photographs from this collection I’d like to share with you but they are of a much different type, so will be in a future post.