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

 

Name
Community Service Society of New York (Former owner,Issuing body)
Title
Mulberry Health Center Album -- Crowd in Front of Mulberry Community House
Abstract
#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.
Collection Name
Community Service Society records
Shelf Location
Box no. 618, Folder no. 24, Item no. 602, Photograph no. 4474
Subjects
Streets; Storefronts; Italian Americans; Handcarts; Grocery trade; Funeral homes; Crowds; Buildings; New York (N.Y.); Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.); Little Italy (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.); Fourteenth Ward Industrial School (New York, N.Y. : Building)
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. This building is listed today the in National Register of Historic Places as "Fourteenth Ward Industrial School (added 1983), also known as Astor Memorial School".
Annotation on back: From: Mulberry Health Center Album
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/bmkv-q456