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Sunday morning at Orchard and Rivington, [New York City] – Antique Print

Sunday morning at Orchard and Rivington, [New York City], [1915? Oct. 7] — historic photograph
Sunday morning at Orchard and Rivington, [New York City], [1915? Oct. 7]. 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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A window into the past: Sunday morning at Orchard and Rivington, [New York City], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Sunday morning at Orchard and Rivington, [New York City]

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Orchard and Rivington streets sit in the heart of the Lower East Side, one of the most densely populated immigrant neighborhoods in Manhattan during the 1910s. Sunday was a busy day for the street markets there, when shoppers, vendors and families crowded the sidewalks and roadways. The Library of Congress catalogs the picture as dating from about 1915, though the exact day is uncertain. Scenes like this show how neighborhood commerce spilled out of storefronts and into the street, a pattern that defined the district for decades.

Created / published[1915? Oct. 7]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsMarkets--New York (State)--New York--1910-1915. City & town life--New York (State)--New York--1910-1915.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,187 × 4,175 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145950

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