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Community Service Society Photographs
is an online presentation of almost 1400 photographs (and a few illustrations) from the Community Service Society Records at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. They offer representations of urban poverty, unsafe tenement housing, inadequate hygiene in public areas, and other pressing social issues in late-19th- and early-20th-century New York. The images range from the 1880s through the 1950s.
- New York (N.Y.) 944
- Amputees 1
- Aprons 2
- Attics 6
- Automobiles 33
- Aviaries 1
- Axes 2
- Babies 90
- Bags 14
- Bakeries 1
- Barns 1
- Barrels 12
- Baseball 2
- Baskets 9
- Bathtubs 5
- Bedrooms 24
- Beds 38
- Benches 12
- Books 11
- Boys 408
- Bread 4
- Bridges 3
- Bugle 1
- Buildings 185
- Buses 3
- Butchers 1
- Camps 74
- Candy 2
- Carpets 4
- Cats 13
- Chairs 39
- Chapels 1
- Checks 1
- Chickens 2
- Children 741
- Chimneys 1
- Christmas 10
- Cleaning 11
- Clerks 2
- Clotheslines 30
- Coats 1
- Collage 5
- Cooking 3
- Costume 1
- Courtyards 20
- Cows 1
- Crates 14
- Crayons 1
- Crowds 14
- Crutches 2
- Crying 8
- Curbs 8
- Dance 1
- Dentists 9
- Desks 2
- Dining rooms 13
- Diving 2
- Docks 6
- Dogs 9
- Dolls 10
- Doors 8
- Drawing 2
- Drums 1
- Facades 11
- Families 48
- Fathers 8
- Fences 29
- Festivals 10
- Fire escapes 19
- Fires 5
- Flags 7
- Flax 1
- Flies 1
- Flute 1
- Food 25
- Fruit 5
- Furnaces 1
- Gardens 1
- Gates 2
- Gifts 3
- Girders 2
- Girls 279
- Graffiti 1
- Grasses 3
- Handcarts 36
- Hats 2
- Heating 1
- Hiking 1
- Horses 24
- Hotels 3
- Housing 28
- Hydrants 20
- Ice 1
- Insects 1
- Interiors 247
- Ironwork 12
- Jews 1
- Jig saws 2
- Kitchens 59
- Knitting 3
- Ladders 3
- Lamps 1
- Lanterns 1
- Laundry 54
- Lawns 1
- Luggage 3
- Lumber 2
- Markets 9
- Marshes 5
- Medicine 1
- Meetings 2
- Men 343
- Milk 8
- Mothers 63
- Nets 1
- Newspapers 35
- Notaries 1
- Nurses 137
- Nuts 1
- Ocean 1
- Offices 9
- Older men 40
- Older people 32
- Older women 41
- Overalls 1
- Pails 3
- Paint 6
- Painting 4
- Paneling 2
- Parades 1
- Parks 6
- Parties 2
- Physicians 75
- Piano 1
- Piers 1
- Plants 1
- Play 60
- Playpens 3
- Plumbing 4
- Police 4
- Porches 3
- Portraits 51
- Posters 7
- Posture 3
- Pots 2
- Pottery 1
- Public baths 22
- Pupae 1
- Rags 1
- Recreation 67
- Reflexes 3
- Roads 2
- Rocks 7
- Roofs 5
- Rugs 1
- Sand 3
- Sanitation 14
- Saws 3
- Scythes 1
- Sewage 5
- Sewerage 5
- Sewing 29
- Shadows 1
- Shoes 3
- Shovels 3
- Sidewalks 88
- Sisters 1
- Sleep 3
- Snow 3
- Soap 14
- Sofas 1
- Spinning 1
- Sports 3
- Stairs 41
- Statues 1
- Stools 5
- Storefronts 65
- Stoves 65
- Streets 137
- Surveys 2
- Swimming 12
- Swings 2
- Tables 12
- Tableware 10
- Tanks 2
- Tenement houses 110
- Theaters 1
- Thermometers 12
- Tipis 1
- Toilets 9
- Tools 3
- Towels 5
- Toy making 30
- Toys 61
- Trays 1
- Trees 25
- Trenches 2
- Trucks 6
- Tuberculosis 18
- Twins 4
- Waterfronts 11
- Wells 2
- Wharves 2
- Widows 5
- Windows 6
- Winter 3
- Women 535
- Wood 12
- Wooden toys 23
- Woodwork 3
- Workshops 55
- X-rays 5
- Youth 6
- Zoos 23
- Myers, Hiram 69