Images from HIUS 202

Street Market, Lower East Side, New York City, c.1895, Street life in New York City was the life-blood of diverse immigrant communities. City streets reflected both the complex social structures of the cities-the dense housing, the street vendors and carriages--and the mixing, haggling, and intermingling that these new Americans experienced in the urban environment. Source: The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940, ed. David Ward and Olivier Zunz (1997).

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