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Italian Bread Peddlers, Mulberry St., New York – Historic Print

Italian Bread Peddlers, Mulberry St., New York — historic photograph
Italian Bread Peddlers, Mulberry St., New York. 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: Italian Bread Peddlers, Mulberry St., New York, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Italian Bread Peddlers, Mulberry St., New York

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Mulberry Street, in the heart of Manhattan's Little Italy, is the setting for this turn-of-the-century view of bread peddlers at work. The Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its large catalog of American scenes printed in the decades around 1900, made the photograph, and its caption card links the subject to street vending and to the Italian immigrant community that had settled in the neighborhood. Such street scenes were valued at the time as records of immigrant labor, and they show how goods moved directly from carts and hand-carried baskets into the crowded tenement district. The record itself is thin, so the precise day and the names of the vendors are not known.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[ca. 1900]
SubjectsPhotograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 013585 - no orig. neg. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Streets; Street vendors; NY--NYC--Misc.--ca. 1900; Italians-Americans; Peddlers...; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,223 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137904

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