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Making artificial flowers in a New York tenement house – Historic Print

Making artificial flowers in a New York tenement house, [between 1909 and 1919] — historic photograph
Making artificial flowers in a New York tenement house, [between 1909 and 1919]. 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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Making artificial flowers in a New York tenement house 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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Home-based flower making filled the cramped rooms of New York's tenement houses in this scene, where workers finished delicate paper and fabric blossoms for piecework pay. The trade was typical of crowded immigrant neighborhoods in the 1910s, when families and small contractors turned out garments, flowers and other goods from their apartments. The glass negative came from the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio that recorded American life across the country, and its date is only a range, 1909 to 1919. Streaks and blemishes on the glass come from the natural breakdown of its original coatings.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1919]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,048 × 4,386 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-248814

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