The Color of a Great City

Chapter 43: Transcriber’s Notes

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American Literature Essays, Letters & Speeches

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The essays and vignettes assemble first-person impressions of urban life in New York in the early twentieth century, tracing crowded immigrant neighborhoods, tenement hardships, street trades and the Bowery alongside the city's wealthier avenues and bustling waterfront. Through descriptive sketches and personal wanderings the author documents the rhythms of labor, poverty, small businesses, seasonal entertainments and vanishing local characters, noting social contrasts and rapid change while reflecting on memory, urban vitality, and the loss of older neighborhoods and ways of life.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

Transcriber removed duplicate book title on page before first chapter.