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CSS Description: Looking North on Mulberry Street from between Grand and Hester. See - #3006 - same scene. The boy behind the fire plug is holding a coffee pot, and what looks like an open pipe in the foreground is an overturned pail.

Title: Boys Playing in Open Fire Hydrants, Lower East Side
Date: between 1879 and 1950
Date Note: Date based on the date range (1879-1950) of the photographic portion of the Community Service Society Collection.
Item Number: 117
Photograph Number: 3009
Format: photographs
Borough: Manhattan
Street Names: Mulberry Street
Hester Street
Grand Street
Annotation on Back: Mulberry looking north between Grand and Hester. C. Antoni (TM).
Places: New York (N.Y.); Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
Topics: Streets; Play; Hydrants; Children; Boys
Creators: Myers, Hiram
Box and Folder Number: 13: 34
CSS Description: Looking North on Mulberry Street from between Grand and Hester. See - #3006 - same scene. The boy behind the fire plug is holding a coffee pot, and what looks like an open pipe in the foreground is an overturned pail.

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Myers, Hiram. "Boys Playing in Open Fire Hydrants, Lower East Side." between 1879 and 1950. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, Community Service Society Collection. http://css.cul.columbia.edu:443/catalog/rbml_css_0117 (accessed Oct 20, 2020)