Hester Street

 

Name
Byron Company (New York, N.Y.) (Photographer)
Community Service Society of New York (Former owner,Issuing body)
Title
Hester Street
Abstract
#323 Byron Collection Museum of the City of New York Looking west on Hester Street from Norfolk Street (about 1900). The El in the background is the Second Avenue El which ran along Allen Street from Canal to East Houston. The large building to the right of the El is P.S. 42, still standing (1970) between Orchard and Ludlow Streets, but the cornice has been removed. Also still standing is the build ing on the left with the awning, corner of Hester and Essex Streets. At the time this picture was taken, Seward Park (Essex to Clinton, Hester to East Broadway) was in the process of being laid out (see small section of wooden fence at left foreground, behind the man wearing the derby). Seward Park was opened in 1902. The buildings in the right foreground are all gone and the site (Hester to Norfolk) is part of Seward Park Playground (opened 1941).
Collection Name
Community Service Society records
Shelf Location
Box no. 296, Folder no. 20, Photograph no. 323
Subjects
Women; Streets; School buildings; Men; Girls; Crowds; Children; Buildings; Baskets; New York (N.Y.); Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
Format
photographs
Genre
photographs
Date
circa 1900
Note
Annotation on back: Byron Photo Hester St.
N.B. Only Museum of City of New York negative to be used.
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/e6fx-vk36