100 Years of U.S. Consumer Spending: Data for the Nation, New York City, and Boston

[From Preface] The Consumer Expenditure Survey is among the oldest publications of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With information on the expenditures, incomes, and demographic characteristics of households, the survey documents the spending patterns and economic status of American families. This report offers a new approach to the use of Consumer Expenditure Survey data. Normally, the survey presents an indepth look at American households at a specific point in time, the reference period being a calendar year. Here, the authors use consumer expenditure data longitudinally and draw on information from decennial census reports to present a 100-year history of significant changes in consumer spending, economic status, and family demographics in the country as a whole, as well as in New York City and Boston.

Walther Simon of Hamburg with his wife and daughter Ursula outdoors; Schenectady, New York Portraits Family

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Hans Krakauer and Elizabeth Krakauer nee Gottschalk; Boston, New York. Portraits Couples

Photograph taken in front of the house in Boston, in upstate New York outside of Buffalo, where in 1939 they set up their private medical practice. After WWII, they built a new house next door.

Julius Pick aged 93 at his grandson Gary Godshaw's Bar Mitzvah; Buffalo, New York Portraits Men

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Albert and Elsa Einstein with Judge Irving Lehmann and his wife Sissie; Port Chester, New York Portraits Groups

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Albert Einstein with Judge Irving Lehman; Port Chester, New York Portraits Groups; Men

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Friedrich Bergammer (Fritz Glueckselig) standing in the doorway of the gallery store M. Glueckselig & Son; 108 East 57th Street, New York Portraits Men

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Hans Krakauer and Elizabeth Krakauer nee Gottschalk; Boston, New York. Portraits Couples

Photograph taken in front of the house in Boston, in upstate New York outside of Buffalo, where in 1939 they set up their private medical practice. After WWII, they built a new house next door.

Unidentified man, Elizabeth Krakauer nee Gottschalk and Hans Krakauer on board the ship Koenigstein traveling from Antwerp to New York City on their emigration voyage from Germany.

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Dr. Margarethe Rosenberg with her camera; Mount Vernon, New York.

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Portrait of Alfred Lichtenstein with his flute; New York.

Handwritten dedication signed by Lichtenstein

Portrait of Alfred Lichtenstein's second wife Georgette Wegh; New York.

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Henry Rosenbaum seated at a desk smoking a cigar and sketching; New York Portraits Men

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Rose Wergert nee Herz on deck of the ship New York.

Rose, sister of Fred and Beatrice Herz

Fred Herz marrying Gertrud Weinreb, the couple drinking wine under the wedding canopy (chuppah); New York.

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