View of tenement houses where some residents work at home finishing garments, 260-268 Elizabeth Street, New York City, New York, United States

People:

Lewis Wickes Hine (photographer)

Title:

View of tenement houses where some residents work at home finishing garments, 260-268 Elizabeth Street, New York City, New York, United States

Date:

March 1912

Description:

The ground floor of the building is occupied by shops.

Photograph taken while Lewis Wickes Hine was working for the National Child Labor Committee.
Caption from NCLC caption card: "Row of tenements, 260 to 268 Elizabeth St., N.Y., in which a great deal of finishing of clothes is carried on".

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 10.5 x 16.5 cm mat: 20.3 x 25.4 cm sheet: 10.5 x 16.5 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:1136

Inscription:

numbered - 2887 (in pencil, gone over with heavy pencil, in unknown hand, verso, upper left) inscribed - Row of Tenements / 260 - 268 Elizabeth St / NYC March 1912 / 2887 (in pencil, gone over with heavy pencil, in unknown hand, verso, upper centre)

Location:

New York (City); New York; United States;

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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