BGuthrie Photos: NY -- NYC -- Chinatown

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CHINAT_180816_053.JPG: Lost New York Gem German Winter Garden/Windsor Theatre 43-47 Bowery On this site in the mid-1800s, stood the German Winter Garden (aka Volks Garden), a forgotten treasure of mid-19th century New York's Kleindeutschland, then the third most dense concentration of Germans in the world. Known for its music and family-friendly ambiance, it was one of several stately German theatres, banks and beer gardens on the Bowery, Little Germany's cultural hub. built circa 1855, the Winter Garden's glass-encased dome was one of the first to use cast-iron rib framing. In 1864, the structure was replaced by the 3,500 seat New Stadt Theatre, which became the Windsor Theatre in 1878. Billed as the "Largest Theatre in America", it alternated over the years between German drama, classical music and opera. Yiddish theatre, and plays by Shakespeare and Ireland's Dion Boucicault. Appearing there were "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Italian actor Antonio Maiori, Jacob Adler as the Jewish King Lear, magic legend Herrmann the Great and matinee idol James O'Neill (Eugene's father) in The Count of Monte Cristo. Decades before Broadway became integrated, one could also have seen Callender's Minstrels, an African American minstrel troupe, featuring America's first widely popular Black comedian, Billy Nersands. In 1910, the Windsor was torn down to make way for the Manhattan Bridge Plaza. -- David Mulkins, Historian/Educator Windows on the Bowery
2. CHINAT_180816_056.JPG: High and Low Art at inﬂuential theatre - 37-39 Bowery - On this spot in 1833 stood the Zoological Institute, one of America's first menageries. Expanding to include equestrian and circus acts, it became the Bowery Amphitheatre. Acts here included the famous clown W.F. Wallett, and "the great Lion Tamer" Issac Van Amburgh, believed to be the first to stick his head into the mouth of a lion. On February 6, 1842, the Amphitheatre saw the first performance of the Virginia Minstrels, four Northern White men in blackface who created the first group minstrel show. An influential theatrical genre for over 100 years, minstrelsy was a supposed recreation of Southern Black music, dance and joke telling. Though it popularized a harmful parade of racist stereotypes, minstrelsy was nonetheless and institution through which characteristically American forms of music, song and dance emerged. With the Bowery the mid-1800s cultural center of Kleindeutschland (Little Germany), the theatre changed its name to the Stadt Theatre. From 1854 to the early 1860s, it alternated between English drama and presentations of German classical music and opera. Many German works had their American premieres on the Bowery, including Wagner's Tannhauser at the Stadt in 1859. -- Lenwood Sloan, Historian/Humanist and Co-author with Mick Moloney, Two Roads Diverged: African and Irish Americans and the Rise of American Popular Culture
3. CHINAT_180816_082.JPG: The Chapter of Great Harmony (Ta Tung) by Confucius / (551-479 BC)
4. CHINAT_180816_109.JPG: Lin Ze Xu 1785 -1850 Pioneer in the war against drugs
5. CHINAT_180816_113.JPG: In memory of the Americans of Chinese ancestry who lost their lives in defense of freedom and democracy.
6. CHINAT_180816_122.JPG: Ancient Order of Hibernians
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Wikipedia Description: Chinatown, Manhattan
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Manhattan's Chinatown, home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, is the oldest of at least 9 Chinatowns in the New York metropolitan area.

Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 819,527 uniracial individuals as of 2014.

Historically, Chinatown was primarily populated by Cantonese speakers. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of Fuzhounese-speaking immigrants also arrived and formed a sub-neighborhood annexed to the eastern portion of Chinatown, which has become known as Little Fuzhou. As many Fuzhounese and Cantonese speakers now speak Mandarin—the official language in China and Taiwan—in addition to their native languages, this has made it more important for Chinatown residents to learn and speak Mandarin. Although now overtaken in size by the rapidly growing Flushing Chinatow, located in the nearby borough of Queens – also within New York City – the Manhattan Chinatown remains a dominant cultural force for the Chinese diaspora, as home to the Museum of Chinese in America and as the headquarters of numerous publications based both in the U.S. and China that are geared to overseas Chinese.
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