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CSS Description: See: Box 296 Folder 1 Photo 14-2 Wooster Street Typed on back of photo: Basement Tenements which once were one of the worst sources of disease and contagion in New York are depicted in this drawing from the Community Service Society's Annual Report for 1884.

Title: Girl with Cat on Wooster Street
Date: 1884
Item Number: 971
Photograph Number: MA-268
Format: illustrations
Borough: Manhattan
Street Names: Wooster Street
Annotation on Front: Wooster Street
Annotation on Back: BASEMENT TENEMENTS WHICH ONCE WERE ONE OF THE WORST SOURCES OF DISEASE AND CONTAGION IN NEW YORK ARE DEPICTED IN THIS DRAWING FROM THE COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1884. Wooster St.
Places: New York (N.Y.)
Topics: Tenement houses; Doors; Children; Cats; Basements
Creators: Drake, W. H. (William Henry)
Box and Folder Number: 620: 54
CSS Description: See: Box 296 Folder 1 Photo 14-2 Wooster Street Typed on back of photo: Basement Tenements which once were one of the worst sources of disease and contagion in New York are depicted in this drawing from the Community Service Society's Annual Report for 1884.

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Drake, W. H. (William Henry). "Girl with Cat on Wooster Street." 1884. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, Community Service Society Collection. http://css.cul.columbia.edu:443/catalog/rbml_css_0971 (accessed Jul 12, 2020)