Showing Results 1 - 4 of 4
Public Access
Text
Once this was the heart of Warsaw—this labyrinth of sad narrow streets between tall tenement houses. Now this is a remote place, an ancient tumor on the body of the modern city, where its blood flows…
Contributor:
Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…
Contributor:
Vitaliano Poselli
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1900–1912
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
An infinite weariness comes into the faces of the old tenements,
As they stand massed together on the block,
Tall and thoughtful silent,
In the enveloping twilight.
Pensively,
They eye each other…
Contributor:
Alter Brody
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1918
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
All along the street, on both sides, on the lowest floor of the houses there are a multitude of stores, large and small. The majority of them are pressed into holes so narrow as to allow passage for…
Contributor:
Ben-Avigdor
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1891