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[Italian neighborhood with street market, Mulberry Street, New York] – Vintage Photo Print

[Italian neighborhood with street market, Mulberry Street, New York], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Italian neighborhood with street market, Mulberry Street, New York], [between 1900 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: [Italian neighborhood with street market, Mulberry Street, 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 neighborhood with street market, Mulberry Street, New York]

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Mulberry Street, on the western edge of what is now Little Italy, was one of the most crowded immigrant corridors in Lower Manhattan when this glass negative was made around 1900 to 1910. The Detroit Publishing Company, which marketed hand-colored and black-and-white views of American places to travel and souvenir buyers, often photographed busy street markets like this one, with pushcarts and wagons lining the roadway among tenement buildings. The wave of Italian immigration that filled these blocks in the decades around 1900 turned the district into a dense hub of food shops, vendors and family businesses. The negative's catalog number and its 1949 gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado show how the company's views later reached archives far from New York.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. G 349" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09349. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsEthnic neighborhoods. Streets. Markets. Carts & wagons. Mulberry Street (New York, N.Y.)United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 713 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76634

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