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Lesser Newark: 1939

April 1939. "Slums. Newark, New Jersey." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

April 1939. "Slums. Newark, New Jersey." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

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An interesting walk

Given that this is 1939, I'd like to have walked down that sidewalk when a steam engine was inching past. Even if it were a little switcher.
Especially on a cold day.

Buick Limited?

That looks like a 1937 Buick Limited on the street off to the right. Sure does not fit in that neighborhood! Landlord? Gangster? Or my wife says maybe a doctor? (She always likes to see the innocent side!)

Clifford Street at Wheeler Point

The railroad track along Clifford street is a surviving clue to Rothstein's location. It was a spur line headed downtown, and it is still there along Clifford Street.

I tried to duplicate the point of view on Google Earth. Looks like it was taken from atop the railroad bridge on the main line.

https://earth.google.com/web/@40.71927585,-74.15984713,9.78570943a,307.9...

Cutting-edge business

Messrs. Landew and Blume saw profit in recycling before it was cool.

Ironbound

That's St. James Catholic Church to the right, demolished in 1979 by the Archdiocese for a parking lot.

History of the church here.

History of the "Ironbound" area here.

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