Children Playing in Water on Street

- CSS Description
- #5090 Unknown Photographer In Revolutionary days the rich and influential built their mansions on fashionable Cherry Hill, named from a cherry orchard belonging to Mayor Thomas Delavall. George Washington lived at No. 3 Cherry Street at the time of his inauguration. John Hancock lived at No. 5, Captain Samuel Chester Reid, a hero of the war of l8l2, at No. 27. Captain Reid designed the present American flag, with 13 stripes commemorating the 13 original states and with a progressive scheme for the stars as new states were added. Mrs. Reid is said to have the sewed the first flag. The Reid's house was the first (1823) in America to have gas lighting. (The above Information was gleaned from Rider's New York City Guide, c1916, p. 114, and Federal Writers' Project, New York City Guide, c1937, p. 115)
Item Information
- Title
- Children Playing in Water on Street
- Date
- before 1934
- Item Number
- 585
- Photograph Number
- 5090
- Format
- photographs
- Borough
- Manhattan
- Street Names
- Cherry Street, 116
- Places
- New York (N.Y.); Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
- Topics
- Streets; Storefronts; Play; Girls; Drugstores; Children; Boys
- Box and Folder Number
- 618: 7
- CSS Description
- #5090 Unknown Photographer In Revolutionary days the rich and influential built their mansions on fashionable Cherry Hill, named from a cherry orchard belonging to Mayor Thomas Delavall. George Washington lived at No. 3 Cherry Street at the time of his inauguration. John Hancock lived at No. 5, Captain Samuel Chester Reid, a hero of the war of l8l2, at No. 27. Captain Reid designed the present American flag, with 13 stripes commemorating the 13 original states and with a progressive scheme for the stars as new states were added. Mrs. Reid is said to have the sewed the first flag. The Reid's house was the first (1823) in America to have gas lighting. (The above Information was gleaned from Rider's New York City Guide, c1916, p. 114, and Federal Writers' Project, New York City Guide, c1937, p. 115)