Archived Video: Lower East Side Fish Market, 1903
Archival footage of a Lower East Side fish market on the morning of May 1, 1903:
Inside a Turkish Night Club on Allen Street: 1942
Turkish Night Club 2 Image descriptions:New York, New York. Turkish nightclub on Allen StreetJoe Levy, Jewish-Turkish-American owner of a nightclub on Allen StreetTurkish-American and his wife who own a nightclub on Allen Street. Their son is in the United States ArmyOrchestra at a Turkish nightclub on Allen StreetThe girl plays a tambourine between dances.Guests get up and dance to the Oriental music whenever they pleaseHabitues of a Turkish nightclub on...
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The story of Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins, former slave and musical genius
Thomas Greene Wiggins (1849-1908) was a former slave and indentured servant who began playing piano by the age of four and became one of the most celebrated musicians of the Civil War era.Thomas was born autistic and without sight on May 25, 1849 to Mungo and Charity Wiggins, two Georgia plantation slaves owned by Wiley Edward Jones. His family was sold soon after to Colonel James Neil Bethune, and Tom...