harlem has been home to a varriety of ethnic groups, black and white. Since the turn of the twentieth century. harlem has been called a state of mind, but it is also real place.
In this essay, the introduction to Andrew S. Dolkart and Gretchen S. Sorin's Touring Historic Harlem: Four Walks in Northern Manhattan, Dolkart, James Marston Fitch Chair and associate professor of historic preservation at Columbia, charts the growth of Harlem and its buildings, from its roots as a Dutch farming village called Nieuw Haarlem in 1658, centered at East 125th Street.
In this 1923 article from the New York Times that was clipped by Alexander Gumby for his legendary scrapbooks on African American history, now held by Special Collections at the Columbia University Libraries, the influx of African Americans to Harlem is noted and described from the perspective of that period.
Hi Lobsang,I like the way that you used pictures to describe the history of Harlem, it's very interesting, because you can understand better the way that they living in that time.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think are doing these people from the pictures today or their sons?
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ReplyDeleteHi, Lobsang. before I read your blog, I can get some information from these old pictures. it can clearly present what kind of the topic you say.
ReplyDeleteSo, do you think other people have the right to treat them?