Abstract
Explores some of the most persistent and powerful images of migrant arrival and settlement from the early 20th century connected to Jewish districts in the East End of London and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. These visual representations incorporate varying degrees of popular journalism, social reportage, and social survey methodology. Each of these visual forms acquire a new intensity with the later 19th- and early 20th-century mass migrations as well as the attendant anti-immigrant campaigns which followed. This chapter investigates the mostly anonymous drawings and photographs which accompany George R. Sims panoramic survey of London (Living London, 1902) to show one set of observations and audience expectations; Jacob Epstein’s illustrations for a parallel account of New York (Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto, 1902) suggest an alternative, more engaged approach.
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