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End of the poor Funeral from a tenement house in Baxter Street, Five Points, New York / from a sketch by our artist. – Historic Photograph Print

End of the poor Funeral from a tenement house in Baxter Street, Five Points, New York / from a sketch by our artist., 1865 — antique engraving
End of the poor Funeral from a tenement house in Baxter Street, Five Points, New York / from a sketch by our artist., 1865. Antique engraving 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: End of the poor Funeral from a tenement house in Baxter Street, Five Points, New York / from a sketch by our artist., preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Few funerals were as bare as the one shown here, which leaves a crowded tenement on Baxter Street in the Five Points district of lower Manhattan, a neighborhood long synonymous with destitution. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ran the wood engraving on July 1, 1865, working from a sketch by its own artist, so the scene reflects a reporter's eye rather than a camera's. Weekly illustrated papers like Leslie's brought images of urban poverty to middle-class readers, who often viewed the district with a mix of pity and alarm. The title's phrase, "End of the poor," frames the picture as a record of how a family of little means buried its dead.

Created / published1865
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1860-1870.Title pages 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870.
NotesIllus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 20 (1865 July 1), p. 225.
SubjectsFuneral rites & ceremonies--New York (State)--New York--1860-1870. Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York--1860-1870. Poor persons--New York (State)--New York--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,289 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-197818

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