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December 1941. "Junk men with waste paper. New York City." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
How'd these rocks get under here?!
High paid metals rags. Prices for paper.
Perhaps there is a '4' obscured by the cart wheel (preceding the '59'). This, because at 459 W 18th Street in those days there was a Junk Shop.
If I'm correct in reading Mickey's address as 159 West 18th Street, it can be seen in Google streetview as the last remaining red brick tenement building on a nice-ish block in Chelsea, not far from the meatpacking district.
[There is no "1." The address is just two digits. - Dave]
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