Community Service Society Photographs

Item Information

Title

Old Men's Toy Shop Album -- Woman Sewing with Men Making Toys

Date

1919

Item Number

528

Photograph Number

4253

Format

photographs

Corporate Designation

New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

Borough

Manhattan

Street Names

West 51st Street, 28

Annotation on Back

From: Old Men's Toy Shop Album. Similar photo in Bagdad Sept. 1919, No. 7, facing page 1 (an ad)

Places

New York (N.Y.)

Topics

Workshops; Women; Toys; Toy making; Sewing; Older women; Older people--Employment; Older people; Older men; Men

Names

Women's Work Interiors (New York, N.Y.); Old Men's Toy Shop (New York, N.Y.); Crawford Work Shops (New York, N.Y.)

Box and Folder Number

299: 46

CSS Description

See #4261 and #4262 for exterior view of Shop. From: Old Men's Toy Shop Album Similar picture in ad in Bagdad on the Subway; A Periodical of Association [AICP] News, No. 7, September 1919, facing page 1. Caption: The little store where you will find all the quaint things that old people make for children, 28 West 51 Street. VISIT THE CRAWFORD SHOPS A combination of the Old Men's Toy Shop and the Women's Work Rooms.