Community Service Society Photographs

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CSS Description: Negative on file at Brown Bros., 220 West 42 St., N.Y.C. Only Brown Bros. negative to be used. Written by hand on back: "Clothes drying in the tenement district." The address on the Optical Co. sign on the fence, lower left, is 6 something East 138 Street.

Title: Clothes Drying in Tenement District
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: 1269
Photograph Number: 1062
Format: photographs
Borough: Manhattan
Street Names: East 138th Street
Annotation on Back: Clothes drying in the tenement district
Places: New York (N.Y.)
Topics: Women; Tenement houses; Laundry; Clotheslines
Creators: Brown Brothers (New York, N.Y.)
Box and Folder Number: 296: 45
CSS Description: Negative on file at Brown Bros., 220 West 42 St., N.Y.C. Only Brown Bros. negative to be used. Written by hand on back: "Clothes drying in the tenement district." The address on the Optical Co. sign on the fence, lower left, is 6 something East 138 Street.

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Brown Brothers (New York, N.Y.). "Clothes Drying in Tenement District." between 1879 and 1950. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, Community Service Society Collection. http://css.cul.columbia.edu:443/catalog/rbml_css_1269 (accessed May 18, 2022)