Community Service Society Photographs

Item Information

Title

Mulberry Health Center Album -- Crowd in Front of Mulberry Community House

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

602

Photograph Number

4474

Format

photographs

Borough

Manhattan

Street Names

Mott Street, 256-8

Annotation on Back

From: Mulberry Health Center Album

Places

New York (N.Y.); Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.); Little Italy (New York, N.Y.)

Topics

Streets; Storefronts; Italian Americans; Handcarts; Grocery stores; Funeral homes; Fourteenth Ward Industrial School (New York, N.Y. : Building); Crowds; Buildings

Box and Folder Number

618: 24

CSS Description

#4475 From: Mulberry Health Center Album Unknown Photographer AICP Mulberry Community House, 256-8 Mott Street, between Prince and Houston (see #4338). The cart in the middle of the street is selling Italian Ices. The signs on the front of the Community House appear to be about Community House activities. The two on the right are for Tuesday and Thursday. In front of the curled-up sign on the left is an eccentrically dressed man (flowing robes, amulet on right arm, horsetail hair, and a peculiar headdress). Neighborhood eccentric? Evangelist? One man band? On the second floor fire escape of the house to the left of the Community House, a child has been put to bed.