50 Eldridge Street
Chinatown | built 1912
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1920
The Hebrew Publishing Co. at 50 Eldridge Street issues illustrated sheet music that mentions Columbus and America
In 1920 the Hebrew Publishing Co., then based at 50 Eldridge Street, issued a piece of sheet music with an illustrated cover and a company logo. Its sample lyrics, as shown by Ephemeral New York in 2008, name Columbus, America and Uncle Sam and speak of a free land. The blogger presented it as a relic of Yiddish stage music on the Lower East Side.
Source: Ephemeral New York
- 1924
The Hebrew Publishing Company, a prayer book and Yiddish publisher, works from 50-52 Eldridge Street
Joseph Werbelowsky and his son David founded the Hebrew Publishing Company in 1901, building on an 1883 firm called Rosenbaum & Werbelowsky. It is recorded at 50-52 Eldridge Street in 1924 and had moved to 632-634 Broadway by 1928. The firm printed Hebrew prayer books, Yiddish literature, textbooks, greeting cards and sheet music, and later spent more than forty years at 77 Delancey Street.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- When Yiddish theater rocked the worldEphemeral New York
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