A loiterer in New York; discoveries made by a rambler through obvious yet unsought highways and byways
A Loiterer in New York is a 1917 guidebook by Helen W. Henderson, published in New York by Doran, that directs general readers to the city's public art and monuments. Its photographs show outdoor sculpture and architecture in plain black and white, including a fountain with a seated figure beside stone steps, a bronze statue of Peter Cooper on a classical pedestal, a horse-tamer group in a park, and a triumphal arch. A designer could take from them the strong silhouettes of monuments, the formal symmetry of pedestals and arches, and the way figures are framed against trees and brick.
