Circa 1905. "New York tenement." With a number of tiny inhabitants in evidence. Dry plate glass ... bottles and other such items on the dressing table. This tenement dweller did not leave home unadorned!
Photo on shelf Looks like a National Guard Company group photo
Not your typical tenement While we can't quite see through the window to the left of the oval ...
New York circa 1905. "Interior of tenement." All the conveniences, including a somewhat incongruous couch on ... out of the book.
It's funny how nice a "lowly" tenement room can look without modern plastic junk all over the place.
Nice ...
Changing markets Pretty spacious and spiffy for a tenement! Bet it now rents for $7k a month to a junior law partner.
The ...
New York City circa 1905. "Exterior of tenement." The longer you look at this, the more you'll see. 8x10 inch glass ... were some terrific restaurants in that immediate area.
Tenement? In New York City a "tenement" is considered to be a small (under ...
Circa 1905. "Tenement stairway and hall, New York City." The Trudge Report. 8x10 inch dry ... like "squalid" or "reeking" or "crumbling" to the word tenement in contemporary news articles and essays reveals that the noun was not ... "impecunious" are often closely associated, the "old law" tenement maximized density and minimized cost to the detriment of access to ...
... with the massive overcrowding of New York's poor into tenement neighborhoods. This photo documents the model two-room apartment ... (the former Consuelo Vanderbilt), to the East Side tenement dwellers themselves, including a girl who told a reporter that she was ...
A 1937 Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project poster asking New Yorkers to keep the premises clean. View full size. Now a fine-art print.
(The Gallery, Art & Design, Posters) ...
Before Urban Renewal, there was the Hyacinth Window Box.
March 1921. "City Gardens Club of New York exhibit at the International Flower Show, Grand Central Palace." From the Home Improvement issue of Bette ...
"New York tenement yard c. 1900-10." One of the better surviving images of turn of the century tenement life. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.
... a lot of us. Dave, you play well to your audience.
Tenement Days I'm a student in Glasgow now, and there are echoes of the ...
Summer 1935. "Washington, D.C., alley dwelling. The clutter of filth, debris and tin cans all have highly utilitarian purposes. Many of the houses are without gas, water, or electric connections." Note the Capitol dome at the top of the frame. Our ...
January 1912. "Tenement homework, New York, 309 W. 146th Street. Mrs. De Levo [?] and her ... sick.
[They have a pill for that now. -Dave]
Tenement Homework If you live in/near NYC or are visiting the city consider a trip to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. They have a tenement building that looks every bit as bad as ...
... be interesting to know the exact location.
Dumbbell Tenement Exposed The demolition here affords us a rare "inside look" at the air shaft and party wall of a notorious "dumbbell" tenement. This "model" apartment design for the poor was the subject of a ...
... until 1800, when it was about 120 years old. It became a tenement with shops and businesses (including cigar makers). As the DPC photo ... times as a "sailor’s boarding house... immigrant tenement...candy store, cigar factory, Italian bank, and vegetable and fruit ...
... and as well Mr. Cherry's grocery store. 1595 was another tenement. After a few shops, there was a Woolworth's, a drug store and Meyers ... which more shops and at the end of the block 1599, another tenement. Further down from the other side of Gellers, a huge poultry store. ...
... years old; Camille, 7 years old. Picking nuts in a dirty tenement home. The bag of cracked nuts (on chair) had been standing open all ... a story, but I haven't posted it on my website yet. This tenement burned down a few years later, and the family lost everything, ...
... January 1940. "Family living in a 'crackerbox' slum tenement in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." Medium-format nitrate negative by Jack ... their dignity.
And what the heck is a "crackerbox slum tenement" anyway?
I lived not far from Beaver Falls, at the little river town ...
... 1912. "Making dresses for Campbell Kid Dolls in a dirty tenement room, 59 Thompson Street, New York, 4th floor front. Romana family. ... seems unfortunate that he frequently used the term "dirty tenement room." It was a cold water, walk-up flat; they did the best they ...