Hester St. School – Historic Reproduction
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Hester St. School in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hester St. School
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Hester Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, was one of the most crowded immigrant streets in New York, and this glass negative records a school that stood there. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan photo agency, sold pictures like this one to newspapers and magazines. Schools in the district taught many children from Eastern European and Italian immigrant families, often while they were still learning English. The date is not recorded, so the caption details should be checked.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 7,003 × 5,453 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-2731 |
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