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Necktie workshop in a Division Street tenement – Antique Photo Print

Necktie workshop in a Division Street tenement, [ca. 1889] — historic photograph
Necktie workshop in a Division Street tenement, [ca. 1889]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with Necktie workshop in a Division Street tenement, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Inside a Division Street tenement, a necktie workshop operated in what should have been an ordinary apartment, with cutting and sewing crowded into rooms meant for living. Division Street, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, was one of the most densely built tenement districts of the 1880s, and home-based contract work like this was common there. Photographers documenting the city's poor around 1889, Jacob Riis among them, recorded such scenes to press for housing and labor reform. The caption details for this print come from old, unverified notes, so the exact date and specifics are worth checking against other sources.

Created / published[ca. 1889]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1890.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data. Caption card tracings: Sweatshops; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,216 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117740

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