On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration,a original exhibition traces the roots of the city’s energyThere can be no more iconic photograph of Manhattan at its teeming, turn of the 20th century peak than the image of Mulberry Street taken by the famed documentarian Jacob Riis in 1900. “They are labourers; toilers in all grades of manual work; they are artisans, and they are junkmen,and here, too, and dwell the rag pickers,” the original York Times had reported four years earlier, in 1896. “Here are all sorts of stores, or pensions,groceries, fruit emporiums, and tailors,shoemakers, wine merchants, and importers,musical instrument makers … There are notaries, lawyers, and doctors,apothecaries, undertakers …Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com