Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend – Historic Photograph Print
![Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend, [ca. 1888 or 1889] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/4092d6e0b95f-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend
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Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend shows a narrow, crowded passage in one of the most notorious tenement districts of lower Manhattan. The Mulberry Bend was a dense cluster of old buildings around the bend of Mulberry Street, and by the late 1880s it had become a byword for poverty, overcrowding and disease in New York City. Photographs of such alleys were made to document conditions that reformers hoped would spur change, and this print belongs to that tradition. The date is given only as approximate and the caption card is unverified, so the exact moment of the exposure is best treated as an estimate.
| Created / published | [ca. 1888 or 1889] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,215 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112023 |
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