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Immigration, Urbanization, and Identity: The Progressive Era City #3028
Metadata
Date: February 1912
Location: New York, New York
Photographer: Lewis Hine
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, National Child Labor Committee Collection, LC-DIG-nclc-04166
Caption
223 E. 107th St., N.Y. Rent sign states that these are “Eleganti Apartmenti.” License was recently revoked and after that, our investigator found eight families doing home-work there. It is in miserable shape.
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