"The Great Eastern," number 115 East 37th Street, 1865.

Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York--19th century.

An image of tenement buildings with clothing drying on clothes lines that extend from one building to the next; the roof of the building on the upper left has numerous holes.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Stephen Smith, The City that Was (New York: Frank Allaben, 1911), 98.

1865

Unknown

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Prints

115 East 37th Street

The Homes of the Poor, The Fever Nests in Thirty-Second Street.

Poverty--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900.

Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York.

"Fever Nests" refers to areas of the city, usually tenements, in which typhus fever, typhoid fever and smallpox flourished. Image shows Civil War era slums with animals in the streets and an industrial smoke stack in the background spewing smoke.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Harpers Weekly, May 12 1866, n.p.

1866

Unknown

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Prints

32nd Street