William D. Hassler photograph collection, approximately 1910-1921

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Description

William Davis Hassler (1877-1921) worked as a commercial photographer in New York City from 1909 to his death in 1921. He shot a wide range of subjects for a variety of clients, from magazines to construction companies, postal card publishers, and private commissions. Regular work came from the real estate auction house Joseph P. Day, for whom Hassler documented properties all over the five boroughs of New York City as well as Westchester County, Long Island, and New Jersey; and from the United Electric Light & Power Company, who he provided with images of power plants, illuminated signs, and product shots of electrical appliances of all kinds. Hassler was also an avid photographer of his family and friends, including his sister Harriet E. Hassler, who was head of the children's department of the Queens Borough Public Library, his wife Ethel Magaw Hassler, and his son William Gray Hassler.

PID

nyhs:hassler

NYHS Identifier

Print Room - PR-083

Member of

Photographs of New York City and Beyond

New-York Historical Society Digital Collections

Genre

photographs

cellulose nitrate film

glass plate negatives

lantern slides

negatives (photographs)

photographic prints

Owning Institution

New-York Historical Society

Publisher

New-York Historical Society

Type

Still Image

Subject (Topical)

Curtiss NC flying boats--Photographs

Boxers (Sports)--Great Britain--Photographs

Boxers (Sports)--United States--Photographs

Sewerage--New York (State)--New York--Photographs

World War, 1914-1918--New York (State)--New York--Photographs

World War, 1914-1918--War work--Photographs

Subject (Name)

Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.)--Photographs--Photographs

Bible Teachers Training School (New York, N.Y.)--Photographs

Brooklyn Public Library--Photographs

Church of the Good Shepherd (Inwood, New York, N.Y.)--Photographs

Evangelistic Committee of New York City--Photographs

Interborough Rapid Transit Company--Photographs

Isaac G. Johnson & Company (Bronx, N.Y.)--Photographs

Joseph P. Day (Firm)--Photographs

King Manor (New York, N.Y.)--Photographs

M.H. Harris (Firm)--Photographs

New York Dock Company--Photographs

Queens Borough Public Library--Photographs

Robbins Ripley Company (New York, N.Y.)--Photographs

Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum (Bronx, N.Y.)--Photographs

Seton Hospital (Bronx, N.Y.)--Photographs

St. Vincent's Retreat for the Insane (Harrison, N.Y.)--Photographs

Sunnyside (Tarrytown, N.Y.)--Photographs

Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Company (N.J.)--Photographs

United Electric Light & Power Company (New York, N.Y.)--Photographs

United War Work Campaign, Inc.--Photographs

Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbulders--Photographs

Subject (Geographic)

New York (N.Y.)--Photographs

New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs

Contributor

Evangelistic Committee of New York City

Interborough Rapid Transit Company. Joseph P. Day (Firm)

Queens Borough Public Library

Robbins Ripley Company (New York, N.Y.)

Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Company (N.J.)

United Electric Light & Power Company (New York, N.Y.)

Creator

Hassler, William Davis, 1877-1921

Date Created

1910 to 1921

Extent

399 photographs

William D. Hassler photograph collection, approximately 1910-1921

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Subcollections

Seated studio portrait of unidentified doctor, St. Vincent's Retreat for the Insane, Harrison, N.Y., undated [ca. November 1915].

Interior of O. Krause & Son, pharmacist / apothecary, Seventh Avenue and 29th Street, New York City, March 2, 1915. Pharmacist and customer at counter. Photographed for the Evangelistic Committee.

Moving transfer bridge at the foot of Amity Street, Brooklyn May 24, 1919. Photographed for the New York Dock Company.

Two unidentified Welty family members sitting in rocking chairs in an unidentified sitting room, undated (ca. 1913).

Flushing branch of the Queens Borough Public Library, ca. 1910. A Carnegie library.

Burnside Avenue el station on the Francis T. Lord estate (Grand Concourse, Jerome Avenue, between 180th and 181st Streets and adjacent), Bronx, undated (ca. June 1919). Photographed for Joseph P. Day.

Children seated for story hour, Astoria branch of the Queens Borough Public Library, November 28, 1914.

Composite of interior views of Harriet E. Hassler's residence, [location unknown], October 8, 1914.

335 E. 165th Street, Bronx, undated [ca. December 1915-January 1916].

Sign for the Hotel Theresa, New York City (?), September 26, 1916. Photographed for Lawrence L. Strauss.

Northwest corner of 4th and West Avenue [i.e. 5th Street and 50th Avenue] (parcel #1), Long Island City, Queens, undated.

Informal portrait of an unidentified woman and baby, undated (ca. May 1918).

Little girls at the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Kingsbridge, Bronx, coming back from chapel in white dresses with wreathes and garlands, October 20, 1914.

Interior of the United Presbyterian Church at Audubon Avenue and W. 172nd Street with construction scaffolding erected over the pews, New York City, November 14, 1916. Photographed for the United Electric Light & Power Company.

Group portrait taken for Joseph Schneider, undated (ca. 1911-1921).

Winter view of woods at Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, with frozen brook, February 9, 1915.

Product shot of an electric heating pad, undated [ca. September 1915].

Interior of the Santa Clara (?), Erie Basin, Brooklyn, December 11, 1916. Photographed for Ernest E. Baldwin.

Seymour boy posed with tricycle beside Christmas tree in parlor, Christmas 1912.

William Necker's automobile, possibly Elizabeth, N.J. (?), February 13, 1915. Photographed for Sunnyside Magazine.

William Necker and unidentified man, probably New York City, February 19, 1915. Photographed for Sunnyside Magazine.

Unidentified house on the northeast side of James Street between Orchard Street and Constant Street, Peekskill, N.Y., undated (ca. 1917). Photographed for Mrs. Hester C. Riley, 270 E. 198th Street, New York City.

Pier 17, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 14, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.

Switch box, April 12, 1916. Photographed for the United Electric Light & Power Company.

Seated studio portrait of unidentified doctor, St. Vincent's Retreat for the Insane, Harrison, N.Y., undated [ca. November 1915].

Interior of O. Krause & Son, pharmacist / apothecary, Seventh Avenue and 29th Street, New York City, March 2, 1915. Pharmacist and customer at counter. Photographed for the Evangelistic Committee.

Moving transfer bridge at the foot of Amity Street, Brooklyn May 24, 1919. Photographed for the New York Dock Company.

Two unidentified Welty family members sitting in rocking chairs in an unidentified sitting room, undated (ca. 1913).

Flushing branch of the Queens Borough Public Library, ca. 1910. A Carnegie library.

Burnside Avenue el station on the Francis T. Lord estate (Grand Concourse, Jerome Avenue, between 180th and 181st Streets and adjacent), Bronx, undated (ca. June 1919). Photographed for Joseph P. Day.

Children seated for story hour, Astoria branch of the Queens Borough Public Library, November 28, 1914.

Composite of interior views of Harriet E. Hassler's residence, [location unknown], October 8, 1914.

335 E. 165th Street, Bronx, undated [ca. December 1915-January 1916].

Sign for the Hotel Theresa, New York City (?), September 26, 1916. Photographed for Lawrence L. Strauss.

Northwest corner of 4th and West Avenue [i.e. 5th Street and 50th Avenue] (parcel #1), Long Island City, Queens, undated.

Informal portrait of an unidentified woman and baby, undated (ca. May 1918).

Little girls at the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Kingsbridge, Bronx, coming back from chapel in white dresses with wreathes and garlands, October 20, 1914.

Interior of the United Presbyterian Church at Audubon Avenue and W. 172nd Street with construction scaffolding erected over the pews, New York City, November 14, 1916. Photographed for the United Electric Light & Power Company.

Group portrait taken for Joseph Schneider, undated (ca. 1911-1921).

Winter view of woods at Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, with frozen brook, February 9, 1915.

Product shot of an electric heating pad, undated [ca. September 1915].

Interior of the Santa Clara (?), Erie Basin, Brooklyn, December 11, 1916. Photographed for Ernest E. Baldwin.

Seymour boy posed with tricycle beside Christmas tree in parlor, Christmas 1912.

William Necker's automobile, possibly Elizabeth, N.J. (?), February 13, 1915. Photographed for Sunnyside Magazine.

William Necker and unidentified man, probably New York City, February 19, 1915. Photographed for Sunnyside Magazine.

Unidentified house on the northeast side of James Street between Orchard Street and Constant Street, Peekskill, N.Y., undated (ca. 1917). Photographed for Mrs. Hester C. Riley, 270 E. 198th Street, New York City.

Pier 17, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 14, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.

Switch box, April 12, 1916. Photographed for the United Electric Light & Power Company.

Seated studio portrait of unidentified doctor, St. Vincent's Retreat for the Insane, Harrison, N.Y., undated [ca. November 1915].

Interior of O. Krause & Son, pharmacist / apothecary, Seventh Avenue and 29th Street, New York City, March 2, 1915. Pharmacist and customer at counter. Photographed for the Evangelistic Committee.

Moving transfer bridge at the foot of Amity Street, Brooklyn May 24, 1919. Photographed for the New York Dock Company.

Two unidentified Welty family members sitting in rocking chairs in an unidentified sitting room, undated (ca. 1913).

Flushing branch of the Queens Borough Public Library, ca. 1910. A Carnegie library.

Burnside Avenue el station on the Francis T. Lord estate (Grand Concourse, Jerome Avenue, between 180th and 181st Streets and adjacent), Bronx, undated (ca. June 1919). Photographed for Joseph P. Day.

Children seated for story hour, Astoria branch of the Queens Borough Public Library, November 28, 1914.

Composite of interior views of Harriet E. Hassler's residence, [location unknown], October 8, 1914.

335 E. 165th Street, Bronx, undated [ca. December 1915-January 1916].

Sign for the Hotel Theresa, New York City (?), September 26, 1916. Photographed for Lawrence L. Strauss.

Northwest corner of 4th and West Avenue [i.e. 5th Street and 50th Avenue] (parcel #1), Long Island City, Queens, undated.

Informal portrait of an unidentified woman and baby, undated (ca. May 1918).

Little girls at the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Kingsbridge, Bronx, coming back from chapel in white dresses with wreathes and garlands, October 20, 1914.

Interior of the United Presbyterian Church at Audubon Avenue and W. 172nd Street with construction scaffolding erected over the pews, New York City, November 14, 1916. Photographed for the United Electric Light & Power Company.

Group portrait taken for Joseph Schneider, undated (ca. 1911-1921).

Winter view of woods at Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, with frozen brook, February 9, 1915.

Product shot of an electric heating pad, undated [ca. September 1915].

Interior of the Santa Clara (?), Erie Basin, Brooklyn, December 11, 1916. Photographed for Ernest E. Baldwin.

Seymour boy posed with tricycle beside Christmas tree in parlor, Christmas 1912.

William Necker's automobile, possibly Elizabeth, N.J. (?), February 13, 1915. Photographed for Sunnyside Magazine.

William Necker and unidentified man, probably New York City, February 19, 1915. Photographed for Sunnyside Magazine.

Unidentified house on the northeast side of James Street between Orchard Street and Constant Street, Peekskill, N.Y., undated (ca. 1917). Photographed for Mrs. Hester C. Riley, 270 E. 198th Street, New York City.

Pier 17, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 14, 1916. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company.

Switch box, April 12, 1916. Photographed for the United Electric Light & Power Company.