“Shirts, Drawers, Over-alls, etc.”

Carpenters, printers, sign painters, jobbers…just the kind of workers who kept New York City growing in the mid-1800s when this picture was taken somewhere in lower Manhattan.

I wonder what you could get from the drug broker back then and how easy it was to get it.

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One Response to ““Shirts, Drawers, Over-alls, etc.””

  1. Aaron Quinones Says:

    I guess they all had a neighbor discount on the signs.

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