City - NY - A place we call home 1912 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
City - NY - A place we call home 1912 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1912, March
Original title: Row of tenements from 260 to 268 Elizabeth St
Photographer: Lewis Wickes Hine
Location: 260 Elizabeth St, Little Italy, NY
Sometimes I wish I could walk into a scene to see what is going on. A lot of people are looking down the street, and it makes me wonder why?
In any case, this image is about how poor people lived in crummy buildings, working for little pay and just how hard life was back then.
The building's color came from a person on another website that said that when he lived there in the 1970's it was white. I think I've seen white brick on old buildings but its not that common. I would have made it pink otherwise. But I'm pretty certain that the building had large stripes of some color, I went with tan in this case, there was already a lot of red in the scene.
I like the homey like look, with baskets and boxes on the porch. Laundry hanging around (though they said it might have something to do with making clothes). There is even a birdcage out there. I put a small blue parakeet in it, because I had one.
There was also a large thing on the left, that looks a bit like a basketball hoop, but is probably a sign edge, I removed that, it was ugly.
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April 17th, 2021
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