Collages and Wearable art on this website
are made from Artifacts that we save from site locations below :



113 2nd st. between 1st and Ave A , Manhattan
Privy in Backyard : 1845's - 1850's

230 Elizabeth st. East Village, Manhattan
Privy in Backyard : 1845's - 1850's

Van duzer st. Staten Island
2
Privies and 2 cisterns in Backyard : 1845's - 1850's

Bay and Hannah, Staten Island
:
200 bottles came out of one wood lined privy. There were 5 privies in this yard. Redwear Plates, broken China, Historical Flasks were found : 1830's - 1860"s

58 Dean st. Brooklyn :
Privy in Backyard : 1840's - 1860"s

Water and Front st. :
This was a 3 to 6 feet deep pipe trench. All of this area is landfill circa 1750's - 1780's

217 east 10th st. :
Backyard privy well made of stone : 1830's -1855

169 Suffolk st. Lower East Side :
20 feet privy well deep stone lined : 1830's - 1860's

Carmine st. and Bedford st. West Village Manhattan :
Stone lined privy : 1830's - 1850's

Bronx Landfill :
From shoreline areas of the South Bronx : 1935

Westchester Creek :
Landfill along the creek bed in the Bronx : 1910 -1890

Queens Landfill : 1920's :
Early 30's marshland dump site

Green Point, Brooklyn on Eckford st. :
This was a construction site 10 feet deep, it was a pond inlet and marshlands that they filled in back in the 1890's to make this landfill

North Bronx Landfill : 1905 - 1915

Staten Island Landfill :
On shoreline 1890's

Pacific st.Brooklyn :
Cistern and privy were dug along this blog : 1840's - 1870's

326 w. 19st. Manhattan :
Backyard stone lined privy well 12 feet deep : 1840's - 1860's

246 w. 21st. Manhattan :
Privy well stone : 1820's - 1830's

Delancey and Forsyth :
Cut down privy well on a construction site 1820's - 1830's

State st. and Hoyt st. Brooklyn :
Very large cistern : 1850's - 1870's

Gold st. and Tillary st. Brooklyn :
Construction site with privy and cisterns. There was glass factory here in the 1850's - 1870's

243 w. 15th st. Manhattan :
Privy made of stone 1820's - 1850's

Driggs and rand st. Brooklyn :
Empty lot where we dug 3 privies and 1 cistern. 1840's - 1870's

68 Cranberry st. Brooklyn :
Home of Reverand Beecher : 1850's - 1860's , pottery goes back to the 1830's

286 Degraw st. Brooklyn :
Privy well : 1850's - 1870's

84 Amity st. Brooklyn :
Privy well : 1850's - 1870's

Pierrpont st. Brooklyn Height :
1840's - 1850's privy

Taffee and Myrtle avenue Brooklyn :
Woodlined privy 5 feet deep : 1840's - 1850's

Canal st. and West Broadway Manhattan :
Construction site with a broken open privy well : 1830's - 1850's

West side Highway Project :
All landfill from a deep pipe trench : 1850's - 1890's

Leroy and BEdford st. West Village Manhattan :
Backyard privy : 1830's - 1860's

14th Place in Astoria , Queens :
Small construction site with landfill on a small slope or hill, 2-3 feet thick : 1870's - 1880's

12th st. and Astoria Blvd, Queens :
Small privy lot, privy well backyard : 1840's - 1860's

Green Point ave and Monitor st. Brooklyn :
Landfill at a street pipe dig : 1880's


Pottery Shards and Fragments of Glass bottles.






Hotel Key tag 1890's :
found in Green Point Brooklyn

 

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