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[Interior of tenement house, New York City] – Historic Reproduction

[Interior of tenement house, New York City], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Interior of tenement house, New York City], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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: [Interior of tenement house, New York City], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Interior of tenement house, New York City]

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Unlike the street scenes that dominate many photographic surveys of New York, this 8 by 10 inch glass negative turns the camera inside a tenement house. It dates from roughly 1900 to 1910, a period when reformers were pressing the city to address overcrowded housing, and New York passed its Tenement House Act in 1901. Interior work required long exposures and bulky equipment, so the picture offers a direct view of the cramped domestic spaces where many working families lived.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Emerson # 2" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043269. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTenement houses. Interiors.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70200

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