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Flophouse : life on the Bowery

Title
Flophouse : life on the Bowery / text by David Isay and Stacy Abramson ; photographs by Harvey Wang.
Author
Isay, David
Publication
  • New York : Random House, [2000]
  • ©2000

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Additional Authors
  • Abramson, Stacy
  • Wang, Harvey
Description
xv, 150 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm
Summary
A photographic odyssey into New York City's eight remaining flophouses in the Bowery district captures the life stories of the men, representing all races and classes, who dwell in the forgotten underbelly of one of the world's great cities.
Alternative Title
Life on the Bowry
Subject
  • Poor men > New York (State) > New York > Interviews
  • Poor men > New York (State) > New York > Portraits
  • Lodging-houses > New York (State) > New York > Anecdotes
  • Lodging-houses > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
  • Skid row > New York (State) > New York
  • Marginality, Social > New York (State) > New York
  • City and town life > New York (State) > New York
  • Documentary photography > New York (State) > New York
  • City and town life
  • Documentary photography
  • Lodging-houses
  • Marginality, Social
  • Poor men
  • Skid row
  • Bowery (New York, N.Y. : Street)
  • New York (State) > New York
  • New York (State) > New York > Bowery (Street)
Genre/Form
  • interviews.
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works.
  • Anecdotes.
  • Interviews.
  • Pictorial works.
  • Portraits.
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Contents
The White House Hotel -- The Providence Hotel -- The Andrews Hotel -- The Sunshine Hotel.
ISBN
  • 0375503226
  • 9780375503221
  • 0375758313
  • 9780375758317
LCCN
2001274377
OCLC
  • ocm44772953
  • 44772953
  • SCSB-1201926
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library