Hot Weather on Cherry Street, New York City, New York, ca. 1915

silver gelatin print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Manhattan
ca. 1915
emulsion on photographic paper
overall: 0.00 x 0.00; image: 8.00 x 10.00

8x10 in. print made by Rosenfeld and Sons with no original negative number on the verso. Image is of a man, 2 women, 2 children and a baby in a carriage all sleeping, due to the heat, just outside the front door of an apartment building on the cement stairs. The man is wearing long johns under his pants. The women are wearing long ankle length skirts with aprons. The clothing is worn and torn and stained looking. Back of print info.: "Sleeping out in ......on hot nights, N.Y." Back of print says location is, "Cherry Street" which is in lower East Side, Manhattan, New York. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

RD.1984.187.7719

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection