Blog Post 4 - Sanitation workers



The June 22, 1895, edition of Harper's Weekly compared photos of the same street corners two years earlier to show what an incredible transformation street cleaning had effected.




When Waring's "White Wings" first began cleaning up New York streets in the 1890s, they needed police protection from disgruntled residents.


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