• Lewis Wickes Hine (photographer)

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

March 1912

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".

Gelatin silver print

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

PH1980:1136

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)

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