December 1936. "Scene along Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx, a section from which many of the New Jersey homesteaders have come." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration, which used these pictures as examples of the supposed squalor from which it was rescuing its clients -- second-generation Jewish immigrant families -- by relocating them to the suburbs. View full size.
  BUY PRINT    December 1936. "Scene along Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx, a section from which many of the New Jersey homesteaders have come." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration, which used these pictures as examples of the supposed squalor from which it was rescuing its clients -- second-generation Jewish immigrant families -- by relocating them to the suburbs. | Click image for Comments. | Home | Browse All Photos