Tanya Toft

Projects

• Urban Media Archaeology (Collaborator)
• Research Sites (Collaborator)
• Mapping the social public spheres of coffee shops (Primary Investigator)

Records Created

• Review of the Café Royale by George Ross from 1934, in "Tips on Tables".
• Inside the Black Horse Tavern, image from W. Harrison Baykes: "Old Taverns of New York", (New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, c1915
• New York Sun, June 22, 1933: "Mike Callahan's Old Sidewalk Cafe, Judges, District Attorneys, Other Lawyers Among the Customers Who Thrived Here".
• Article from The NEw York Sun, June 22 1933: "Mike Callahan's Old Sidewalk Cafe, Judges, District Attourneys, Other Lawyers Among the Customers Who Thrived There."
• The Freemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the city of New-York, are desired to meet at the Coffee-House, on Saturday the 3d instant, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon, to choose a committee to act for them. Feb. 1, 1776
• An advertisement from the King's Arms Coffee House (also called The Coffee House) on May 1774: "To the public. [electronic resource] : An advertisement having appeared at the coffee-house, in consequence of the late extraordinary and very alarming advices received from England ... the inhabitants of this city and county are requested to attend at the coffee-house, on Thursday the 19th instant, at one o'clock, to approve of the committee nominated as aforesaid ..."
• The Coffee House / King's Arms Café, c1871
• Newspaper clip form The New York Times, Sunday, September 27, 1914: "Huneker Reminisces About the Maw of New York, He Recalls the Restaurants and Cafes of a Quarter of a Century Ago and Laments the Fact That the Young Folk of Today Are Not Epicures"
• Newspaper clip: General, The Sun Rays, 1938
• Newspaper clip: General, The Sun Rays, 1938
• Newspaper clip: General, The Sun Rays, 1938
• Paper clip, "The Tontine Coffee-House" New York, Tuesday Evenings, July 25, 1871
• The Bridge Café
• Image from pamphlet of The Coffee House, A Social Club
• The Caffe Cino
• H.M. Koutoukas' "All Day For A Dollar," 1965, photo by JAMES D. GOSSAGE.
• JOE CINO, SAM SHEPARD, ROBERT PATRICK, New York Times Magazine, Dec. 5, 1965.
• Coffee Shop Archival Image (id:706)
• Kenny Burgess' abstracted poster for "Donovan's Johnson" by Soren Agenoux, and Ondine and Olympio Vasconceles in performance.
• Popular Cino plays
• Play at Caffe Cino, Donna Forbes in "Dames at Sea," 1966
• Inside Cafe Cock'n'Bull
• Images from pamphlet from the Cafe des Beaux-Arts (1907) 1) illustration 2) The Gold Room 3) The Ladies' Bar 4) The Rose Room
• Coffee contest, location unknown
• Location unknown
• People drinking coffee at Fair Grounds Coffee House
• Fair Grounds Coffee House
• Doughnuts and coffee at The Fire Department of New York
• New York Fire Department
• Alice Goodwin sitting in chair inside Garrett's Coffee House
• Group portrait inside Garrett's Coffee House (1912-1917)
• In front of Garrett's Coffee House (1917-1928)
• Alice Foote McDougal's coffee shops. 1) The Coffee Court, 2) La Piazzetta
• A café on the Upper West Side
• Men inside the Café of the Democratic Republic. Printed on border: "Congressman William Sulzer." "Abraham Gruber." "Richard Croker." "Elliot F. Danforth." "Isaac Fromme." "William Astor Chanler." "Bernard F. Martin"
• Personal letter-advertisement for new place, The latin Quarter, in Greenwich Village. Promotes its atmosphere and Parisian murals. Music, dancing and entertainment, and only 10c coffee. He lists the guest musicians he has hired, such as Nar Mattlin. “Music at all hours”.
• Informal group portrait of women dining. Locaiton unknown.
• Italian-American coffee drinking men in an unknown coffee shop in Little Italy, 1930s.
• The Black Horse Tavern, drawing
• Le Café Loyale
• Café de la Bourse
• An unknown café on the Upper West Side
• Caffe Cino
• The Black Horse Tavern
• Mould's Café / "Billys"
• Café Firenze
• The Piazzetta, by Alice Foote McDougal
• The Coffee Court, by Alice Foote McDougal
• Garrett's Coffee House
• Café Royal
• Café Cock'n'Bull
• Italian-American Coffee Shop
• Mike McCallaghan's Café
• The Coffee House, A Private Club
• Café des Beaux-Arts
• Merchant's Coffee House. Advertisement for meeting where land and houses will be sold.
• Merchant's Coffee House. Advertisement for meeting where land and houses will be sold.
• Merchant's Coffee House
• The Tontine Coffee House, floor plan sketch 1 of 4. Cadastral map. Shows property and lot lines, buildings, owners’ or lessors’ names, some dimensions.
• The Tontine Coffee House, floor plan sketch 1 of 4. Cadastral map. Shows property and lot lines, buildings, owners’ or lessors’ names, some dimensions.
• The Tontine Coffee House, 1882
• The Tontine Coffee House as it appeared in 1820
• Painting of the Tontine Coffee House on Wall Street, by Guy Francis.
• Painting of the Tontine Coffee House on Wall Street, by Guy Francis.
• Indoors, tavern 1905-15. Location unknown.
• Fairgrounds, visitors drinking coffee. Location unknown.
• The Exchange Coffee House, at the foot of Broad Street by the bridge.
• Coffee shop on Upper West, Manhattan. Specific location unknown.
• Burn's Coffee House 1859
• Burn's Coffee House, later Atlantic Garden
• The Tontine Coffee House, 1872
• The Tontine Coffee House
• Café of The Democratic Republic
• Café of The Democratic Republic
• Café of The Democratic Republic
• Cock&Bull Coffee Shop
• Fairgrounds - visitors drinking coffee
• The Latin Quarter
• The Latin Quarter
• Coffee shop on Upper West
• Informal group portrait of women dining
• The Latin Quarter
• The Latin Quarter
• The Latin Quarter
• The Latin Quarter
• The Exchange Coffee House
• Exchange Coffee House