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[Tenement kitchen in disrepair, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[Tenement kitchen in disrepair, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1910(?)] — historic photograph
[Tenement kitchen in disrepair, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 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: [Tenement kitchen in disrepair, New York, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Tenement kitchen in disrepair, New York, N.Y.]

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Few details set this view apart as clearly as its setting: a kitchen inside a New York City tenement, shown in visible disrepair, with the wear of crowded daily use in its walls and fittings. The period the record suggests, roughly 1905 to 1910, falls just after the state's Tenement House Act of 1901, which set minimum standards for light, air and sanitation, and reformers were photographing such rooms to press for enforcement. The caption card marks the date as uncertain, so the exact moment is worth reading with some caution. The print belongs to the Roy E. Stryker Collection, whose holdings include earlier pictures of urban poverty.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1910(?)]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsRoy E. Stryker Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Misc.--1905-1910?; Tenement houses--NY--NYC--1905-1910?; Interiors--Kitchens--1905-1910?; Geogr.; Tenements; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,090 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151112

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