Little Italy, 1900, Colorized Size:(A2) Large boomed by the 1930s as

boomed by the 1930s as a thriving industrial town

Every building is identified and catalogued and resourced

when researching my novel The Flames

as if she’s containing something within herself

Little Italy, 1900, Colorized Size:(A2) Large boomed by the 1930s asABOUT THIS PHOTOGRAPH They are laborers; toilers in all grades of manual work; they are artisans, they are junkmen, and here, too, dwell the rag pickers There is a monster colony of Italians who might be termed the commercial or shopkeeping community of the Latins. Here are all sorts of stores, pensions, groceries, fruit emporiums, tailors, shoemakers, wine merchants, importers, musical instrument makers There are notaries, lawyers, doctors,