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0:00 guitar harmonics by Jim Surkamp over image 1 to 0:07
1. Photo Charles Broadway Rouss & signature
Harrison, Mitchell Charles. (1900). "New York state’s prominent and progressive men." [New York] New York tribune p. 528
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0:07 sharpen scythe over images 2 to :14
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0:07 Beauties 1 by Cam Millar over image 2 to :14
2. Farmer Whetting His Scythe by William Sidney Mount
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:15 Erik Satie – gymnopedies – la 1 ere. lent et douloureux.ogg over images 3-7
to :45
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Public domain music from musopen.com
Performed by Robin Alciatore. Courtesy of Musopen
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3. TITLE New York City
4. TITLE 1866-1902
5. Bird’s eye panoramic view print of Manhattan in 1873, looking north. The Hudson River is on the west to the left. The Brooklyn Bridge (to the right) across the East River was under construction from 1870 until 1883.
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6. 3 boys flowers
0:56 History of New York City
New York City 1900-1919 In Color HD
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7. walking Brooklyn Bridge
0:52 History of New York City
New York City 1900-1919 In Color HD
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7a. younger Charles Broadway Rouss
Charles Broadway Rouss A Phrenograph from a personal examination by J. A. fowler
A Phrenograph from Personal Examination – The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health Vol. 103 No, 1 January, 1897 Whole No. 697, p. 2.
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:45 – Scott Joplin (The Chrysanthemum, 1904) over image (film) 8 to 1:00
Ragtime Piano Roll Legend
Jun 6, 2009 – RagtimeDorianHenry – ragtimedorianhenry.com
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8. (film) – 1896-1901: Visual tour of New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound)
guy jones
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1:00 – Waterdogs 2 by Cam Millar (cammillar.com) over images 9-10 to 1:08
9. Montage
9a. Charles Broadway Rouss A Phrenograph from a personal examination by J. A. fowler
A Phrenograph from Personal Examination – The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health Vol. 103 No, 1 January, 1897 Whole No. 697, p. 3
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9b. Bldg Rouss 549, 551, 553
Charles Broadway Rouss A Phrenograph from a personal examination by J. A. fowler
A Phrenograph from Personal Examination – The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health Vol. 103 No, 1 January, 1897 Whole No. 697, p. 7
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9c. ad
King, Moses. (1895). "King’s Photographic Views of New York" Boston: Ma: Moses King
pp. 463-464 Rouss Building offerings
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9d. 549 Broadway Apple Maps
10. Charles Broadway Rouss A Phrenograph from a personal examination by J. A. fowler
A Phrenograph from Personal Examination – The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health Vol. 103 No, 1 January, 1897 Whole No. 697, p. 3
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1:08 – Dave Hellyer, harmonica; Kevin Williams, drums; Kelly Cornelius, percussion; Joe Bourgeois, guitar over image 11 to 1:23
11. Excursion Train Galop – 1860 – courtesy Spellman Collection of music covers – University of Reading, UK.
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Jump On the Steel Rails of Hard Cash
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1:23 – Sussex Carol on Christmas over images 12-19b to: 1:47
The Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night) – Jan 28, 2015 – Craig Duncan
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group
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12. Charley’s in Jail
Ludlow Street Jail
The New York Public Library
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
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** and images
13. I vow to him
13a. Decorating a small Christmas Tree (1898) by Marcel Rieder
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13b. Same as 7a. Fowler CBR photo
13c. Wiman, Erastus, (1893)."Chances of Success: Episodes and Observations in the Life of a Busy Man." New York, New York: The Farrington Company. pp. 268-269.
frontispiece
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14. that as I am to-day forty years old, (same as 13a-13b)
15. before I am fifty (same as 13a-13b)
15a. (same as 13a.)
15b. CBR image
Photo Charles Broadway Rouss
Harrison, Mitchell Charles. (1900). "New York state’s prominent and progressive men." [New York] New York tribune p. 528
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16. I will be rated in the Reference Book as being worth $500,000
16a. (same as 15a)
16b. (same as 15b)
17. NO IMAGE
18. and before I am sixty, I shall be rated at over a million dollars."
18a. (same as 17a)
18b. Charles B. Rouss best photo
Charles Broadway Rouss — New-York Tribune, March 4, 1902
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19. Harpers Weekly February 24, 1877 – The Devil and a businessman
20. Boss Tweed by Thomas Nast (colorized)
The Brains by Thomas Nast
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I see "bisnes" as a "dedly and final grapl between KING CREDIT and its master MONEY DOWN.
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2:02 – Scott Joplin "Please Say You Will" over images 19- to
Please Say You Will by Scott Joplin
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2:02 – carriage hooves over images 19-32 to 3:50
21. Addison Archer semblance
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22. Masthead Hardware Dealer Magazine, Volume 5 No. 4 April 1896, p. 527
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23. Bird’s eye panoramic view print of Manhattan in 1873, looking north. The Hudson River is on the west to the left. The Brooklyn Bridge (to the right) across the East River was under construction from 1870 until 1883.
wikipedia.org 27 July 2001 Web. 5 July 2020
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24. 1896-1901: Visual tour of New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound)
guy jones
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25. Rouss Building with flag –
Moses King’s Photographs p. 465
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26. Ladies gloves ad
Sears, Roebuck and Company consumer’s Guide No. 107 1898
Sears, Roebuck and Company. Chicago, Ill.
Digitizing sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation
Contributor: Winterthur Museum Library
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Lately the newspapers have been saying that he is going blind.
27. Montage
27a. Newspaper headline that CB was going blind
Spirit of Jefferson August 27, 1895 p. 1
27b. Addison Archer semblance
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28. Rouss Building with flag –
Moses King’s Photographs p. 465
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Shopping in the Late 19th Century
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 by Nana N. Yoshida
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29.
Marshall Field department store, Chicago, Illinois, 1909
Department store owners sought upper- and middle-class customers with money to spend on impulse. Working-class people lacked the time to shop as a leisure activity.
Courtesy of Chicago History Museum
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30.
Lithograph of an illustration by Steinlen from Gil Blas, an important French periodical in the late 1890
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As I approached his million-dollar store I saw a crowd in front of the windows. His windows are always an attraction. Displayed there are goods of all kinds at marvelous prices. They are arrayed in a free and easy way, and there is plenty of dust on them. Two items. I noticed, were lZ-dollar fishing-rods at 49 cents, and fast black hosiery at 40 cents a dozen.
31.
Front of Rouss building today
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32. Montage
32a. Lithograph of an illustration by Steinlen from Gil Blas, an important French periodical in the late 1890
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32b.
fishing rod.
Sears, Roebuck and Company consumer’s Guide No. 107 1898
Sears, Roebuck and Company. Chicago, Ill.
Digitizing sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation
Contributor: Winterthur Museum Library
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32c.
hosiery
Sears, Roebuck and Company consumer’s Guide No. 107 1898
Sears, Roebuck and Company. Chicago, Ill.
Digitizing sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation
Contributor: Winterthur Museum Library
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On the door a sign reads like this:
33.
NOTIS
THIS STOR WlLL CLOS
AT 6.30 TILL FURTHER NOTIS
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Hardware Dealers’ Magazine, Volume 5 No. 4 April 1896, p. 528
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34. Split Screen Rouss and Archer
34a. Addison Archer semblance
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34b. CBR
Photo Charles Broadway Rouss
Harrison, Mitchell Charles. (1900). "New York state’s prominent and progressive men." [New York] New York tribune p. 528
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Mr. Rouss is a phonetic speller.
35.
horizontal hydraulic passenger elevator
J.W. Reedy Elevator Manufacturing Co.. (1890). "Illustrated catalogue of the J.W. Reedy Elevator Manfg. Co.: passenger & freight, steam, hydraulic & hand power elevators." New York; Chicago: The Company
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This is what confronts you on a great sign at the elevator entrance:
36.
Montage framed sign
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4:15 – synthecizer Kevin Williams over images 37-45 to 6:05
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37.
He who bilt, ouns & occupies this marvel of brick, iron k granit, 18 years ago walkt the streets peniles and $5r,ooo in det—only to sho that the capitalists 0f to-da were per men twenty years ago and that many a felo facing poverty to-da may be capitalists a quarter of a century hence I!" HE WIL.
38.
Pluck adorned with ambition bakt by onor brite, will always comand sucess even without the almighty dolor.
39.
The proprietor though no smoker enjoys the flavor of a good cigar but the nasty old pipe or the poisoneous cigarette will not be tolerated in the house —prefer a dead rat or polkat.
40.
Visitors making their headquarters here are requested to leave their dolars and valuables with the cashir, or at the hotel. The alert and sure footed buncos are everywhere. The woods are full of them
41.
One hour now may save you years in the credit hel of mercantile life.
42.
You are welcom to an hour in this concern free to see for yourself which is the surer, shorter, quicker road to success – the old credit gauntlet or ten and twenty per cent off for cash before delivery.
43.
One moment please, look at a few stubborn facts in our window.
44.
Half an hour through our warehouse, containing one million auction values will be very apt to shake your faith in the credit system, and build your future fortune on the solid rock of cash before delivery.
45.CHARLES BROADWAY ROUSS
46. Montage
46a. Addison Archer semblance
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46b. 549 Broadway with flag
Rouss Building with flag –
Moses King’s Photographs p. 465
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6:10 – Bell, Store over images 46-52 to 7:04
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6:11 – Segment Drumming by Steve Reich over images 46-52 to 7:05
SOURCE
L’ensemble de percussion de l’Université de Moncton
Mount Allison University percussion ensemble
Concert enregistré le 18 mars 2017
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6:12 – milling crows over images 47-52 to 7:05
SOURCE
One hour of mall sound, noise from general store, crowd sound for sleep
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I enter.
47. shopping interior department store
Howard, Vicki. (2015). "From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store." Philadelphia, Penn: University of Pennsylvania Press
p. 19
Baker Old Class Collection, Harvard Business Schools
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6:27 – sound of elevator voice saying loud Smith Jones McGinniss over images 48-52 to
7:06
SOURCE:
Creaky Old Elevator Sound Effect
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48 Elevator shaft image
Creaky Old Elevator Sound Effect
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49. ad for Rouss and Company at the store
King, Moses. (1895). "King’s Photographic Views of New York" Boston: Ma: Moses King
pp. 463-464 Rouss Building offerings
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49a. 6th Floor
49b. 7th Floor
49c. 8th Floor
50. woman reading
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51. floors in ad going down
ad for Rouss and Company at the store
King, Moses. (1895). "King’s Photographic Views of New York" Boston: Ma: Moses King
pp. 463-464 Rouss Building offerings
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51a. 3rd and Main floor
52. elevator shaft toward reader
Elevator shaft image
Creaky Old Elevator Sound Effect
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ADD 52a. Main floor
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typing
7:05 – Confluence by Vandaliariver over images 53 to 63 8:05
7:05 – typing sound effect over images 53-97 to 10:05
53.
C.B.’s Office
54. wall of frames
Ladan Chamine pinterest.com
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I kept looking at two walls covered with pictures, one from the Legislature of Virginia thanking Mr. Rouss for
55. Circus Parade on North Loudoun Street in Winchester, VA. Camels, elephants, zebras and circus wagons with people as parade passes 141-301 North Loudoun and 142-186 North Loudoun Street. Filed with Events/Objects-Oversize. See also 69-120 wfchs, 547-17c thl. Photographer: Davidson Bros. Date: 1896
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giving Winchester, Va., his native place, $30,000 for
56. Hollingsworth Spring
Southern Philanthropist Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly Vol. 54, No. 1 May, 1902 p. 720
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its water supply, and
divers others
57. CBR Hall
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from firemen and all manner of organizations.
58. Addison Archer semblance
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59. Rouss in chair
No author, "Advertising Genius," Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. Vol. 54 No. 1, (May, 1902), p. 99.
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I went into the office and approached the said-to-be sightless merchant.
60. Dun & Co.
"Office of R. G. Dun & Co. Mercantile Agency," St. Paul, Minnesota, c. 1895. Picture includes a dozen desks with typewriters and male and female typists. Founded as the Mercantile Agency in 1841, R. G. Dun & Co. was the leading U.S. credit reporting agency during the second half of the 19th century. The company also provided other types of commercial information to subscribers.
officemuseum.com
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61. 60 feet of file cabinets
Globe-Wernicke Cabinet,
The Globe Co., Cincinnati, OH, 1897 ad
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An interesting thing about his office is an enormous file case, covering the wall for fully 60 feet,
and having indexed receptacles for communications and information from all the states in the Union and from all his customers. It is said to be the largest file case in the world.
62.
Woodruff File. Display at National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. The individual document file boxes were patented by Woodruff in 1868. Both Woodruff file boxes and Woodruff file cabinets were advertised in 1887.
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63. Addison Archer semblance
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It is a standing monument to Mr. Rouss’s idea of order, and helps offset the impression of disorder his store conveys.
I took a seat
64.
Trial by Jury detail by Charles Dana Gibson
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8:05 – Dulcimer, Piano, Cello by Cam Millar over images 64 to 76 to 9:07
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I took a chair beside his flat-topped desk
65. stenographer by Charles Dana Gibson
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with two stenographers on the other side of him.
66. in chair
67. family photo
Southern Philanthropist p. 715
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68. bust
Southern Philanthropist bust p. 722
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In personal appearance Mr. Rouss reminds one of nobody. He is unique.
He has an honest, kindly face which proclaims him to be an able, honest man
and a gentleman.
69. dictating while blind in 1899
Gilson Willets, "The Blind Millionaire-Merchant" The National Magazine. Vol. XI (December, 1899), Boston: The Bostonian publishing company p. 309.
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70. Metropolitan Club outside
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8:32 – murmuring over lunch over images 70a-71 to 8:36
70a Metropolitan Club interior
theamericanmenu.com 24 May 2010 Web. 20 August 2020
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*
Metropolitan Club at 1 East 60th St
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71. Delmonico’s
archive.org 26 January 1997 Web. 5 July 2020.
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wikipedia.org 27 July 2001 Web. 5 July 2020
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71a. Interior window
delmonicos.com 3 November 1999 Web. 20 August 2020
delmonicos.com/gallery/
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But he is remarkably careless about his attire. Few who meet him at lunch in the afternoon and
in the Metropolitan Café, or afterward at Delmonico’s, would imagine him to be the owner of one of the largest buildings on Broadway and the
72. CBR2 CBR decor.png
73. Same as 72 but add bag of money
The Brains by Thomas Nast
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possessor of the heaviest private cash account in all the banks of New York City.
74. split image CBR and AA
74a. CBR in deep chair
No author, "Advertising Genius," Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. Vol. 54 No. 1, (May, 1902), p. 99.
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74b. leaning on table, hunched forward by Charles Dana Gibson
The Expert: What Makes You Think She Has One?" – 1901
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75. handshake
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You meet him. He extends his hand and says: "I am your friend."
* FOOTNOTE
Virginia free press., October 31, 1894, Image 1
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9:07 – two chords by Jim Surkamp over images 76-97 to 10:05
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76. The Interview
77. CBR looking ahead #1
New-York Tribune, March 4, 1902
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78. CBR eyes right #1
Charles Broadway Rouss & signature
Harrison, Mitchell Charles. (1900). "New York state’s prominent and progressive men." [New York] New York tribune p. 528
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79. eyes right #2
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“Mr. Rouss, I believe it costs $100 a minute to talk to you. Is that the latest quotation?"
80. image of Rouss face panning in closely to his eyes.
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“Ten cents an hour to-day," he said as he turned his eyes upon me, and appeared to see all over and through me.
81. Trial by Jury detail
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“I think I will take about ten minutes, I want to interview you. . .
82. Masthead Hardware Dealer Magazine, Volume 5 No. 4 April 1896, p. 527
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for the HARDWARE DEALER MAGAZINE."
*
83. Rouss building top with flag
Moses King’s Photographs p. 465
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84. Montage
84a. Rouss building
Shepherdstown Register Nov. 20, 1891
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov 3 June 2008 Web. 5 July 2020.
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026824/1891-11-20/ed-…
84b. listening man – Charles Dana Gibson
leaning on table, hunched forward by Charles Dana Gibson
The Expert: What Makes You Think She Has One?" – 1901
fineartamerica.com 11 November 1998 Web. 10 August 2020
fineartamerica.com/featured/gibson-gibson-girl-1901-grang…
84c. Rouss in easy chair
No author, "Advertising Genius," Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. Vol. 54 No. 1, (May, 1902), p. 99.
babel.hathitrust.org 6 December 2009 Web. 10 August 2020
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3065174&view=1up&…
**
85.
“What’s your name?”
86.
“Addison Archer”
87.
“where do you live! "
88.
“In New York. "
89.
“Where in New York?
90.
I told him.
91.
“Well, what do you want?"
92.
“Something about you, your business your life.”
93. CBR with stenographer
Gilson Willets, "The Blind Millionaire-Merchant" The National Magazine. Vol. XI (December, 1899), Boston: The Bostonian publishing company p. 309.
babel.hathitrust.org 19 September 2008 Web. 5 July 2020.
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039441699&vie…
**
“Jennie, give him the ‘Life.’ "and one of his stenographers
94. a pamphlet with a robin’s egg blue cover
wikipedia.org 27 July 2001 Web. 5 July 2020
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_egg_blue
**
handed me down a copy of a pamphlet with a robin’s egg blue cover, which said, "The Life of Charles Broadway Rouss, price one cent.”
95.
Charles Broadway Rouss & signature
Harrison, Mitchell Charles. (1900). "New York state’s prominent and progressive men." [New York] New York tribune p. 528
flickr.com 26 February 2004 Web. 5 July 2020
www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/145789333…
**
It had his picture, and under it that famous signature, which those who don’t know it at sight are never able to decipher,
***
10:06 – Rob Mitchell bagpipe over images 97-102 to 10:35
and then this piece of poetry:
*
96.
Charles Mackay (author)
wikipedia.org 27 July 2001 Web. 5 July 2020
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mackay_(author)
wikiquote.org 29 October 2003 Web. 20 August 2020
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Mackay
97. Montage Mackay/poem
97a. Illustrated poem’s text
97b1 artwork Miller’s
Miller, Francis Trevelyan. (1912). “The photographic history of the civil war in ten volumes.” Vol. 4. p. 20
archive.org 26 January 1997 Web. 5 July 2020.
archive.org/details/photographichist19114mill/page/20/mod…
97b2 artwork Swan at the end of Leslie’s
Southern Philanthropist Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly Vol. 54, No. 1 May, 1902 p. 720
babel.hathitrust.org 6 December 2009 Web. 10 August 2020
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000000494429&vie…
**
98. Should fortune with a smiling face strew roses in our way,
When shall we stop to pick them up?
99. To-day.
100. But should she come with tale of grief, or talk of coming sorrow,
When shall we grieve, if grieve we must?
101. Tomorrow.
***
10:36 – Two chords by Jim Surkamp over images 103-104 to 10:43;
& 10:36 over images 103-104 to 10:43
102. book cover
a pamphlet with a robin’s egg blue cover
wikipedia.org 27 July 2001 Web. 5 July 2020
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_egg_blue
103. book cover – one cent
104. man reading
"Their First Quarrel" (man, woman each reading a book by Charles Dana Gibson
pinterest.com 2 February 2010 Web. 10 August 2020
www.pinterest.com/pin/432416001697155654/
***
10:43 – River 7 banjo by Cam Millar over images 105-113 to 11:31
**
"You will find it full of anything you want to know about me," said Mr. Rouss, as I turned the leaves.
105. man reading and text from Hardware Dealer Magazine
105a. man reading
"Their First Quarrel" (man, woman each reading a book by Charles Dana Gibson
pinterest.com 2 February 2010 Web. 10 August 2020
www.pinterest.com/pin/432416001697155654/
105b text The from Hardware
Hardware Dealer Magazine, Volume 5 No. 4 April 1896, p. 532
books.google.com 24 November 2005 Web. 5 July 2020
books.google.com/books?pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&dq=Mont…
**
It says:
The personal traits which endear Mr. Rouss to his intimates are his quaint and rugged humor, his patient tolerance with the faults of others, his utter absence of egotism and his marvelous fund of practical common sense.
106. TITLE He never lends
106a. Charles Broadway Rouss & signature
Harrison, Mitchell Charles. (1900). "New York state’s prominent and progressive men." [New York] New York tribune p. 528
flickr.com 26 February 2004 Web. 5 July 2020
www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/145789333…
106b. CBR looking ahead #1
New-York Tribune, March 4, 1902
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com 13 May 2001 Web. 7 July 2020
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-charles-broadw…
**
106c. TITLE He never lends;
107. TITLE He never borrows
107a. Charles Broadway Rouss & signature
Harrison, Mitchell Charles. (1900). "New York state’s prominent and progressive men." [New York] New York tribune p. 528
flickr.com 26 February 2004 Web. 5 July 2020
www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/145789333…
107b. CBR looking ahead #1
New-York Tribune, March 4, 1902
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com 13 May 2001 Web. 7 July 2020
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-charles-broadw…
**
he never borrows;
108. TITLE Nope
108a. CBR looking ahead #1
New-York Tribune, March 4, 1902
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com 13 May 2001 Web. 7 July 2020
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-charles-broadw…
108b. Charles Broadway Rouss & signature
Harrison, Mitchell Charles. (1900). "New York state’s prominent and progressive men." [New York] New York tribune p. 528
flickr.com 26 February 2004 Web. 5 July 2020
www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/145789333…
**
He obstinately declines to invest in enterprises outside of his own immediate business.
He does not profess belief in any of the ordinary accepted creeds of any of the churches.
109. TITLE What about the hardware business?
"Their First Quarrel" (man, woman each reading a book by Charles Dana Gibson
pinterest.com 2 February 2010 Web. 10 August 2020
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**
ARCHER: I want to know particularly about your Hardware Department and your ideas of the hardware business.
110. Montage
110a. Their First Quarrel" (man, woman each reading a book by Charles Dana Gibson
pinterest.com 2 February 2010 Web. 10 August 2020
www.pinterest.com/pin/432416001697155654/
110b. cover of CBR book
110c. whetting scythe William Sidney Mount
Farmer Whetting His Scythe William Sidney Mount – 1848
wikioo.org 9 November 2015 Web. 10 Augut 2020
wikioo.org/paintings.php?refarticle=8XXBNG&titlepaint…
111. Montage
111a. Farmer Whetting His Scythe William Sidney Mount – 1848
wikioo.org ting His Scythe William Sidney Mount – 1848
wikioo.org 9 November 2015 Web. 10 Augut 2020
wikioo.org/paintings.php?refarticle=8XXBNG&titlepaint…
111b. dollar bill 1870
antiquemoney.com 17 June 2000 Web. 10 August 2020
www.antiquemoney.com/large-sized-one-dollar-national-bank…
111c. coins in 1870 quarter
USA "Quarter Pattern Dollar" 1792-1870 coin
coinscatalog.net 12 August 2013 Web. 10 August 2020
coinscatalog.net/usa/coins-1870
111d. USA 5c. "Pattern Nickel" 1866-1942 coin
coinscatalog.net 12 August 2013 Web. 10 August 2020
coinscatalog.net/usa/coins-1870
**
His beginning in New York after the war with $1.80 in cash and $11,000 in old debts
against him-—
112. man reading
"Their First Quarrel" (man, woman each reading a book by Charles Dana Gibson
pinterest.com 2 February 2010 Web. 10 August 2020
www.pinterest.com/pin/432416001697155654/
***
11:27 – HUM OF VOICES, BUSY, INDOORS, USA, DIGIFFECTS over images 113-115 to 11:53
11:29 – cash register sound over image 113 to 11:31
SOURCE: freesfx.co/uk
113. Montage
113a. CBR young
Charles Broadway Rouss A Phrenograph from a personal examination by J. A. fowler
A Phrenograph from Personal Examination – The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health Vol. 103 No, 1 January, 1897 Whole No. 697, p. 3
books.google.com 24 November 2005 Web. 5 July 2020
books.google.com/books?id=KKPNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg…
113b. Byron Company (New York, N.Y.) Retail Trade Dept. Store. 1897. MCNY. 93.1.1.18404.
mcny.org 19 December 1996 Web.10 August 2020
www.mcny.org/story/shopping-late-19th-century
113c. cash register
americanhistory.si.edu 29 February 2000 Web. 10 Augut 2020
americanhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise-exhibition/cor…
114. Montage
(Same as 113a-113c)
114d. music note
flyclipart.com 4 May 2019 Web. 10 August 2020
flyclipart.com/music-notes-png-photo-music-note-clipart-t…
**
His wonderful success,
***
11:31 – dark banjo by Shana Aisenberg over images 115-118 to 11:53
**
but unfortunate co-partnership— His failure in 1875 for $51,000.
115. man reading
Their First Quarrel" (man, woman each reading a book by Charles Dana Gibson
pinterest.com 2 February 2010 Web. 10 August 2020
www.pinterest.com/pin/432416001697155654/
116. C.B. Rouss
findagrave.com 5 December 1998 Web. 10 August 2020
117. man reading
Their First Quarrel" (man, woman each reading a book by Charles Dana Gibson
pinterest.com 2 February 2010 Web. 10 August 2020
www.pinterest.com/pin/432416001697155654/
118. Title C.B. Rouss I paid it with interest
CBR looking ahead #1
New-York Tribune, March 4, 1902
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com 13 May 2001 Web. 7 July 2020
daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-charles-broadw…
***
11:53 – River 7 banjo over images 119-124 to 12:16
11:53 – cash register and door bell over images 119-124 to 12:15
11:53 – hum of voices in busy store – Digifects over images 119-124 to 12:16
**
C.B. paid back every cent, including interest over time
He re-paid every dollar he owed after he failed in 1875. He settled with them at 45 cents on the dollar, but when prosperity came to him again, he paid every cent of this outlawed indebtedness.
119. Title His beginning again
120. Title at the bottom of the ladder—
121. Montage Church St
a. 251 Church Street
google.com/maps 13 October 2001 Web. 5 July 2001.
www.google.com/maps/place/251+Church+St,+New+York,+NY+100…
b. 251 Church Street today street view
**
His rise from cramped quarters, 19 x 65, in Church St., at a rent of $1.00 a day,
122. Montage Broadway
a. 549 Broadway
google.com/maps 13 October 2001 Web. 5 July 2001.
www.google.com/maps/place/549+Broadway,+New+York,+NY+1001…
b. 549 Broadway today street view
**
to the ownership of his present magnificent store with its twelve stories and floor surface of 185,000 square feet.
123. Montage
123a. man reading
"Their First Quarrel" (man, woman each reading a book by Charles Dana Gibson
pinterest.com 2 February 2010 Web. 10 August 2020
www.pinterest.com/pin/432416001697155654/
123b. a pamphlet with a robin’s egg blue cover
wikipedia.org 27 July 2001 Web. 5 July 2020
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_egg_blue
**
CBR: "Take the elevator, go right up and see the full floor full of hardware
124 Montage
124a. man leaning in listening
leaning on table, hunched forward by Charles Dana Gibson
The Expert: What Makes You Think She Has One?" – 1901
fineartamerica.com 11 November 1998 Web. 10 August 2020
fineartamerica.com/featured/gibson-gibson-girl-1901-grang…
124b. CBR in deep chair
No author, "Advertising Genius," Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. Vol. 54 No. 1, (May, 1902), p. 99.
babel.hathitrust.org 6 December 2009 Web. 10 August 2020
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3065174&view=1up&…
125a-b. ad Rouss building
ad for Rouss and Company at the store
King, Moses. (1895). "King’s Photographic Views of New York" Boston: Ma: Moses King
pp. 463-464 Rouss Building offerings
archive.org 26 January 1997 Web. 5 July 2020.
archive.org/details/kingsphotographi00king/page/464/mode/2up (bldg. and ad)
&
Rouss floor directory Eighth Floor Hardware
ad for Rouss and Company at the store
King, Moses. (1895). "King’s Photographic Views of New York" Boston: Ma: Moses King
pp. 463-464 Rouss Building offerings
archive.org 26 January 1997 Web. 5 July 2020.
archive.org/details/kingsphotographi00king/page/464/mode/2up (bldg. and ad)
126. Montage
126a. shopping interior department store
Howard, Vicki. (2015). "From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store." Philadelphia, Penn: University of Pennsylvania Press
p. 19
Baker Old Class Collection, Harvard Business Schools
books.google.com 24 November 2005 Web. 5 July 2020
books.google.com/books?id=KUH8BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lp…
126a-c. Montage Hardware ads
Hardware Dealer Magazine, Volume 5 No. 4 April 1896,
books.google.com 24 November 2005 Web. 5 July 2020
books.google.com/books?pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&dq=Mont…
127. The Making of an American, p. 218
Riis, Jacob A. (1901). " The Making of an American." New York: The Macmillan company,
p. 218.
gutenberg.org 4 April 1997 Web. 10 August 2020
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6125/pg6125-images.html
**
ARCHER: "You look to be rather a young man, Mr. Rouss."
128.
CBR: I am sixty.
129.
I am blind.
130.
I cannot see you at all.
*
Gibson drawing of man looking at CBR
leaning on table, hunched forward by Charles Dana Gibson
The Expert: What Makes You Think She Has One?" – 1901
fineartamerica.com 11 November 1998 Web. 10 August 2020
fineartamerica.com/featured/gibson-gibson-girl-1901-grang…
131. I would never judge
**
I would never judge this from the way he looked at me.
132. CBR face looking front
His eyes were as clear and bright and apparently full of intelligent seeing.
**
133.
"How old are you?" he said suddenly.
134.
AA
"Thirty-two"
**
135.
"I wish I were only thirty-two.
136.
I would rather have youth than great riches."
137.
AA: But you are young in heart and mind,
138.
Addison:
**
"Mr. Rouss. By the way,
139.
what time do you get down here in the morning?”
140.
**
“Six o’clock; I used to get down at five."
141.
“Every day in the year?”
142.
“Except Sundays.”
143.
" How late do you stay at night? "
144.
“Six o’clock;
145.
but now look at here,
146.
you are a stenographer, aren’t you? "
147.
“No; but I can take everything you say verbatim."
fineartamerica.com 11 November 1998 Web. 10 August 2020
fineartamerica.com/featured/gibson-drawings-c1900-granger…
148.
“Well, then you can understand
149.
that I want to get through with my stenographers before seven o’clock.
150.
I don’t like to keep them here after that.”
151.
“Mr. Rouss, what time do you go to bed at night?”
152.
“Eight o’clock.
153.
I suppose you are one of those all-night tellers who go to bed twelve, two o’clock, four o’clock-"
154
“I sometimes write at night." I replied.
155.
**
“That isn’t right,
156.
do your work in the daytime”
Story illustration for the serialized novel
“The Common Law,” by Robert W. Chambers, 1911.
illustration-art-solutions.com 10 October 2010 Web. 10 August 2010
www.illustration-art-solutions.com/charles-dana-gibson.html
**
and get done with it,
158. SOURCE
and go home
159
and go to bed,
160.
and dream.
**
161
My best ideas came in dreams.
162.
Go ‘way now
163.
and let me keep on with my work.
164.
Good-bye."
165.
“Good-bye,
166.
I am very much obliged,”
167. flash and shopping floor
168. shopping floor
169-172 credits
Mullin, Larry A. (1974). "The Napoleon of Gotham: A Study of the Life of Charles Broadway Rouss." Winchester, Va.: Farmers and Merchants National Bank.
Google Maps Winchester today
google.com/maps 13 October 2001 Web. 5 July 2001.
Engineer Map 1864 – northern Shenandoah Valley
wvgeohistory.org 5 October 2010 Web. 5 July 2020.
Burnley, James, (1901). "Millionaires and kings of enterprise; the marvellous careers of some Americans who pluck, foresight, and energy have made themselves masters in the fields of industry and finance." London : Harmsworth brothers, ; Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott pp. 313-321. archive.org 26 January 1997 Web. 5 July 2020.
Smith, Augustine J. "A Southern Philanthropist: A Biographical Sketch of Charles B. Rouss, The Blind Millionaire." Frank Leslie’s popular monthly. Vol. XLII, (December, 1896), pp. 714-726. babel.hathitrust.org 19 September 2008 Web. 5 July 2020.
No author, "Advertising Genius," Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. Vol. 54 No. 1, (May, 1902), p. 99.
Christmas story
books.google.com 24 November 2005 Web. 5 July 2020.
Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, West Virginia) – 8 Jul 1890, Tue Page 2 newspapers.com 12 November 1996 Web. 5 July 2020.
Archer, Addison. "Rouss on Rouss." The Hardware Dealer: A Monthly Magazine, Volume 5 No. 4 (April 1896), pp. 528-534.
books.google.com 24 November 2005 Web. 5 July 2020.
Fowler, J.A. "Charles Broadway Rouss: A Phrenograph from Personal Examination" from The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health (January, 1897) Vol. 103. No. 1 pp. 1-8. books.google.com 24 November 2005 Web. 5 July 2020.
Bird’s eye panoramic view print of Manhattan in 1873, looking north. The Hudson River is on the west to the left. The Brooklyn Bridge (to the right) across the East River was under construction from 1870 until 1883. wikipedia.org 27 July 2001 Web. 5 July 2020.
Rouss, Charles Broadway Collection 304 THL/WFCHS, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA. handleyregional.org 5 October 2010 Web. 5 July 2020.
The morning news. [volume], August 1, 1895, Page 5, Image 5 Savannah, Ga. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov 3 June 2008 Web. 5 July 2020.
Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, West Virginia)- 24 Jun 1890, Tue – Page 1 – newspapers.com 12 November 1996 Web. 5 July 2020.
The Successful Business Houses of New York – by Clark, A.J. & Co., firm, publishers. books.google.com 24 November 2005 Web. 5 July 2020.
King, Moses. (1895). "King’s Photographic Views of New York." Boston: Ma: Moses King books.google.com 24 November 2005 Web. 5 July 2020.
Alexander Turney Stewart (1803-1876) Harpers Weekly April 29, 1876
Wiman, Erastus, (1893)."Chances of Success: Episodes and Observations in the Life of a Busy Man." New York, New York: The Farrington Company. pp. 268-269. archive.org 26 January 1997 Web. 5 July 2020.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume],
September 1, 1891, Image 1 – chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
3 June 2008 Web. 5 July 2020.
Gilson Willets, "The Blind Millionaire-Merchant" The National Magazine. Vol. XI (December, 1899), Boston: The Bostonian publishing company pp. 307-310 babel.hathitrust.org 19 September 2008 Web. 5 July 2020.
Spirit of Jefferson September 11, 1894 Rouss Auction Trade Journal column – chroniclingamerica.loc.gov 3 June 2008 Web. 5 July 2020.
CHARLES B. ROUSS DEAD; Eccentric Dry Goods Merchant Offered a Million to Any One Who Would Restore His Eyesight –
The New York Times – March 4, 1902 nytimes.com 12 November 1996 Web. 7 July 2020.
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