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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FORM A Circumstances of Interview STATE New York NAME OF wORrEn Frealk Byrd ADDRESS 224 West 135th Street NYC DATE December 28 1938 SUBJECT...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] FORM C Text of Interview Unedited STATE New York NAVE OF WORKER Frank Byrd ADDRESS 224 West 135th Street NYC DATE December 28 1938 SUBJECT LIFE IN THE MRLEM MARKETS FOLKLORE NEW...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] daily and carry on the bargaining with farmers who came there to dis pose of their wares Besides that many of their stands were located so far away from the wholesale market...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] selling them at the regular price to the retailers On these days they make what is coloquially known as a killing They to a great extent corner the market on certain rare...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] profit of one cent on each carrot These figures of course are only comparative but they are accurate enough to give the reader a fair idea of haw these transactions are carried...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 6 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] At 102nd Street near the East River the farmers congregate in a separate market of their own where the buyers from the wholesale houses as well as the itinerant pushcart peddlers come...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 7 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] damaged lots of mens and womens furnishings or thoroughly blackened canned goods bought wholesale or at fire sales Her current product however is the most unusual of all She is selling pickles...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 8 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] Add a quart of eider vinegar to two pounds of brown sugar Add two tablespoons of whole cloves and a few small sticks of oinamon You oan also add a few raisins...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 9 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] or fried rate exceptionally high with housewives of the neighborhood who because of long hours on their jobs find it difficult to do their awn baking of this ever popular delicacy of...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 10 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] cheap that it dont pay for the people to 000k them at home The extra trouble is worth the few extra cents theyd have to pay for enough for a good meal...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 11 of [Life in the Harlem Markets] 10 passed around from one person to another until today this dish alone is second in Harlem to hogshead or pigtails peas and rice as a Christmas holiday dish In the markets...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1938-12-28