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Boy in black coat, Pitt St., N.Y. – Historic Reproduction

Boy in black coat, Pitt St., N.Y. — historic photograph
Boy in black coat, Pitt St., N.Y.. Historic photograph from the Family Life 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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Step back in time with Boy in black coat, Pitt St., N.Y., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Boy in black coat, Pitt St., N.Y.

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A boy in a dark coat stands on Pitt Street, one of the crowded blocks on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where tenements pressed close together and children made the sidewalks their playground. The picture dates to 1938, but the print was made around 1994 or 1995, as archivists often do when they print from older negatives. Gold toning gives the silver image warmer tones and helps it last longer. Pitt Street's residents in the late 1930s were largely immigrant families, so the scene offers a glimpse of everyday neighborhood life in that period.

Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver, gold toned.
Notes1938 [printed 1994 or 1995]
SubjectsBoys--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,142 × 1,447 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218780

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