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Notes about this image:Immigrants in Hester Street in the mid-1880s, mostly Russian Jews. Area noted for food peddlers and producers of trimmings for the garment trade.
Citation:Courtesy of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007. All rights reserved. Our thanks to the Museum. In Oliver O. Jensen, American Album, 1968, pp. 252-3. 11.2.1
Standard:11.2-1.00 the effect of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the treatment of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

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