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A new exhibition at the New York Historical museum looks at the immigrant experience in New York City through a range of revealing and diverse viewpoints, with more than 100 photographs and objects showing how the city has been shaped by people from across the globe. The exhibition runs to 29 March
Hester Street, circa 1898. Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Alexander Alland Photograph CollectionThu 15 Jan 2026 11.00 CET
Eugene Gordon’s Playground, Chinatown, 1985
Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Alexander Alland Photograph Collection
Underwood & Underwood, Woman and six children at a kitchen table, New York City, circa 1908-1913
Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Alexander Alland Photograph Collection
Eugene Gordon’s The Sikh Gurdwara (Temple), Flushing, Queens, 1985
Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Alexander Alland Photograph Collection
Jacob A Riis’s Children Aid Society ‘Going West’, 1894-1896
Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Alexander Alland Photograph Collection
Alexander Alland, Rabbi Wentworth Arthur Matthew (1892-1973) holding a Torah scroll during the Simchat Torah holiday, 1940
Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Alexander Alland Photograph Collection
Eugene Gordon’s New York, Flushing, Queens: Asian Supermarket, 1985
Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Eugene Gordon Photograph Collection
Paul Parker, Boys playing baseball in a school yard, 1915-32
Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Alexander Alland Photograph Collection
Hester Street, looking west from the south-west corner of Norfolk Street, New York City, circa 1898
Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Alexander Alland Photograph Collection
Jack Margolin’s Subway ‘Side by Side’, 1994
Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Alexander Alland Photograph Collection
Eugene Gordon’s New York City, Chinatown: Sweatshop, 1985
Photograph: Patricia D Klingenstein Library, the New York Historical, Alexander Alland Photograph Collection
Eugene Gordon’s Nuevo Principe Restaurant, Jackson Heights, Queens, 1984
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