George Grantham Bain was an early news photographer who founded his own photojournalist service in 1898.
He left an incredible collection of more than 40,000 negatives, now housed in the Library of Congress and digitized.
His photos mostly span the late 19th century through the 00s and teens, and he had a special interest in New York City, chronicling news events as well as day-to-day life among the unheralded and unfamous.
These three photos appear to capture three different apartment evictions. The first is simply “Eviction.” The second is titled “East Side Eviciton.”
And the third has no title, but it’s categorized as an eviction by the Library of Congress. I wish we knew the circumstances and how these families fared.
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