Discovery of three half-starved alms-house children in the room of a hired nurse, 152 East Thirty-Fourth Street.

Title:

Discovery of three half-starved alms-house children in the room of a hired nurse, 152 East Thirty-Fourth Street.

Format:

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Publisher:

Harper's Weekly, February 19, 1859, n.p.

Date:

1859

Street Address:

152 East 34th Street

Photographer/Artist:

Unknown

Description:

Interior view of three orphans being removed from the room of a hired nurse.

Subjects:

  • Children--Health and hygiene--New York (State)--New York.
  • Poverty--New York (State)--New York--19th century.
  • Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York.

Rights:

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

Collection:

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

Contributing Institution:

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

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