Joseph Pulitzer & Family > Family Photographs
Falk, New York
Photograph of Joseph Pulitzer
New York, ca. 1889
World Papers, Box 10
Benjamin J. Falk opened his first photographic studio in New York in 1877. Over the next four decades he rivaled the other major photographers such as Napoleon Sarony, specializing in theater portraiture. He was instrumental in expanding copyright protections for photographic work, organizing the Photographers’ Copyright Protection League of America. He was also an innovator in technology, pioneering faster exposure times, the use of more stable emulsions, and, especially interesting to newspaper publishing, the techniques of photoengraving. This copy of his portrait of Joseph Pulitzer was placed in the box enclosed in the cornerstone of the World Building in 1889, included in this exhibition.
Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Sarony, New York
Photograph of Kate Davis Pulitzer
New York, ca. 1889
World Papers, Box 10
Napoleon Sarony ran the top photographic studio in New York for society and celebrity portraiture. After working for other firms, he established his own studio at 37 Union Square in 1867, and after his death in 1896, his son Otto continued the business until his own early death in 1903. This portrait of Kate Pulitzer was placed in the World Building cornerstone box, along with those of her husband and children.
Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Nadar, Paris
Photograph of Ralph Pulitzer
Paris, June, 1889
World Papers, Box 10
Considered by many to be the greatest photographer in Paris, if not the world, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known simply as Nadar, worked as a photographer from the 1850s through the late 1890s. By 1889, when these photographs of three of the children of Joseph and Kate Pulitzer were taken, Nadar’s son was running the business. These photographs were also included in the World Building cornerstone box.
Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Nadar, Paris
Photograph of Lucille Irma Pulitzer
Paris, June, 1889
World Papers, Box 10
Lucille was Joseph’s favorite child, and her death from typhoid fever on New Year’s eve, 1897, was an enormous blow. He was to establish the Lucille Pulitzer Scholarship at Barnard College and to dedicate the Columbia School of Journalism in her memory.
Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Nadar, Paris
Photograph of Constance Helen Pulitzer
Paris, June, 1889
World Papers, Box 10
Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
W. Kurtz, New York
Photograph of Edith Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
New York, 1889
World Papers, Box 10
Edith and Joseph Jr. were photographed in New York, rather than in Paris along with the other Pulitzer children. This photograph was also placed in the World Building cornerstone box. When these photographs were taken, one child had already died, 2-year old Katherine Ethel, on May 9, 1884.
Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Photograph of Joseph and Albert Pulitzer
New York, 1873
This rare moment of the two Pulitzer brothers being together was probably captured by a New York photographer in the spring of 1873. Joseph visited Albert on his way to Europe after selling his shares in the Westliche Post. Albert had just started working at the New York Herald.
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