Children Playing in Garbage Can

Children Playing in Garbage Can

children, leisure, urban areas, storefronts, streets, refuse and refuse disposal

This candid picture of young children playing around a garbage can was originally used as an illustration of an article titled "Annexing Mulberry Bend to the U.S.A. by Jessie Tarbox Beals. The caption was "In a Mulberry Bend Court", even though the picture was taken on a street and not a court. Here is an excerpt of the article:

It is in that part of the city of which Jacob Riis often spoke and wrote. It runs from Canal Street south to Houston Street north, from Broadway west to Bowery east. Within that area are three of the Health Department sanitary areas that are among the most congested in the city. . . . "Here it was that the Educational Nursing Bureau of the A.I.C.P. decided last May to attempt some public health work. Prenatal nurses began the work by house-to-house canvass for the purpose of giving to expectant mothers such instruction as should insure a normal, healthy baby, a well, strong mother prepared to rear her family...."

Jessie Tarbox Beals

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' Community Service Society Photographs

circa 1918

New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

Item Number: 30
Photograph Number: 1891
Box and Folder Number: 12:80

Photograph

850 x 654