About This Item


  • TitleHebrew Quarter, cor. Ludlow and Hester Sts. on Sunday morning
  • Call NumberWILC_0122
  • Cite AsJulius Wilcox photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThrong of peddlers, vendors, carriages, horses, children, and adults on street in lower Manhattan; signs on buildings at left read, "Who's Your Hatter? Callahan . . . Bowery 140" and "Sam Albert, Wines & Liquors"; utility poles in left foreground and right background.
  • Date1892
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 38.c.. Title from inscription below image on recto.
  • CreatorWilcox, Julius
  • SubjectUrban poor -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionJulius Wilcox photograph collection
  • PlaceNew York (N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.