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[Street types of New York City: Peddler of shoe strings] – Vintage Photo Print

[Street types of New York City: Peddler of shoe strings], c1896. — historic photograph
[Street types of New York City: Peddler of shoe strings], c1896.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Shown with his tray of wares, this photoprint presents a peddler of shoe strings, one of the many small trades that filled New York's sidewalks in the 1890s. Elizabeth Alice Austen, a Staten Island photographer, made the image and copyrighted it as a photoprint. Street sellers of cheap goods such as laces and notions were a familiar sight in the crowded city, and Austen's series of "street types" recorded the working people who sold on its corners. The date of about 1896 comes from a caption card and is unverified, so it should be read with that caveat in mind.

Created / publishedc1896.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Elizabeth Alice Austen. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Occupations; Street vendors.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,201 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149789

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