How the other half lives" in a crowded Hebrew district N.Y. City" – Historic Print
(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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How the other half lives" in a crowded Hebrew district N.Y. City" comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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How the other half lives" in a crowded Hebrew district N.Y. City"
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The title borrows from Jacob Riis's 1890 book *How the Other Half Lives*, which exposed the overcrowded tenements of New York, and applies its phrase to a crowded Hebrew district of the city. Around 1907, the Lower East Side was one of the most densely populated neighborhoods anywhere, home to many Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Stereograph cards like this one held two slightly offset photographs that a stereoscope fused into a single three-dimensional view, so viewers could feel they were standing in the street.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | STEREO U.S. GEOG FILE - New York--New York City--Street scenes [item] [P&P] |
| Subjects | of half stereo) No known restrictions on publication. |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 1,404 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138718 |
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