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are a bottle of Piso's
Cure for
Consumption, cup-
ping cups and a
sputum vial
designed to hold
the contagion.
The
Rogarshevskys
moved into the five-
story walk-up at 97
Orchard St., only a
block over from
Delancey Street —
the heart of turn-
Piso's cure for consumption, cupping cups and a sputum
of-the-century
vial are on the dresser next to the bed where Abraham
immigrant Jewish
Rogarshevsky died of tuberculosis.
New York — in
1910. With four
The Rogarshevsky home is one of
boys and two girls (one an orphaned
several on display. Others include the
niece), they were one of the largest
1870s home of Natalie Gumpertz, a
families in the building. Frannie and
Jewish seamstress from Germany and
Abraham shared the small bedroom
single mother of two young girls (her
while the girls shared a single bed in
husband disappeared shortly after
the kitchen and the boys took turns
they arrived in America), and the
sleeping on the couch and in chairs in
1916 home of the Confino family,
the front parlor.
Sephardic Jews from Turkey.
While other East Side hot spots,
All in all, more than 7,000 docu-
such as Tiffany or the Guggenheim,
mented residents from more than 20
sport swank interiors and upscale
exaes
We Won't Take
the Shirt Off Your Back.
3/5
1999
Travel
STEVEN TARNOW, C.R.
1986
-
The Gumpertz front parlor contains the sewing machine where Mrs. Gumpertz,
a single mother, worked to support her two young daughters.
themes, the Lower East Side
Tenement Museum showcases the
narrow stairwell and poorly lit apart-
ments of 97 Orchard St.
The museum, which is located across
the street, bought the vacant building
three years ago. It has since restored
much of the building to depict life
during various periods, transforming
the five-floor walk-up into a terrific
stroll through the past 150 years.
countries lived at 97 Orchard St.
from 1863 until 1935, when tene-
ment reform laws requiring indoor
toilets led the landlord to close the
building. Frannie Rogarshevsky stayed
on an additional six years as caretaker.
For Jews who came to America
from countries such as Germany,
Lithuania, Poland and Russia to
escape economic hardship or
pogroms, life on the Lower East Side