Mulberry Street

 

Name
Community Service Society of New York (Former owner,Issuing body)
Title
Mulberry Street
Abstract
#4472 Unknown Photographer Looking North on Mulberry Street from Canal. The building housing the Villa Rosa Cafe (first on left) is one of the few in the photo no longer in existence. It is now part of the site of the Rectory of the Church of the Most Precious Blood. The cornerstone of the Church (113 Baxter Street, with the property running through to Mulberry) has the date 1901, but the Mulberry Street rectory is of more recent construction. There is a shrine to San Gennaro in the Church of the Most Precious Blood and since 1926, in September, the Feast of San Gennaro has been celebrated on Mulberry Street, with booths lining the street and electric lights strung overhead. According to an article in the New York Times, September 21, 1968, p. 34, "The saint for whom the feast is named was beheaded in A.D. 305 and is said to have stopped a lava flow from Mount Vesuvius.
Collection Name
Community Service Society records
Shelf Location
Box no. 299, Folder no. 92, Item no. 575, Photograph no. 4472
Subjects
Women; Vending stands; Streets; Street vendors; Storefronts; Men; Italian Americans; Crowds; Automobiles; New York (N.Y.); Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.); Little Italy (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.)
Format
photographs
Genre
photographs
Date
between 1879 and 1950
Note (Date note)
Date based on the date range (1879-1950) of the photographic portion of the Community Service Society Collection.
Note
Photographer unknown.
Annotation on back: Mulberry between Hester and Canal looking north
Negative on file
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/dwe2-w811