New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market
A fine panoramic view of this busy market on a Friday morning. Immense throngs of people are passing along the stands and making their purchases of fish.
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A bustling market of mainly Eastern European Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side of NYC on Friday morning, May 1st, 1903 . Copied at 20fps from a 35mm print preserved by the Libary of Congress.
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- Director
- Edwin S. Porter
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