{"id":244161,"date":"2025-05-16T22:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/department-of-public-markets-photographs-nyc-department-of-records-information-services\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T22:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:50:05","slug":"department-of-public-markets-photographs-nyc-department-of-records-information-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=244161","title":{"rendered":"Department of Public Markets Photographs \u2014 NYC Department of Records &#038; Information Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Hylan correspondence files include a copy of Commissioner O\u2019Malley\u2019s 1923 <em>Report to the Mayor. <\/em>O\u2019Malley referenced Hylan\u2019s \u201cearly farm life\u201d and acknowledged how the Mayor had \u201cset about cleaning the Augean stables of waste and corruption which had for years cluttered the path to a successful handling of the food problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">O\u2019Malley\u2019s report went on to detail the \u201cfood problem\u201d and the strides toward its solution made under his leadership. Some of the photographs in the donated collection appeared in the 1923 report. It seems likely that Commissioner O\u2019Malley commissioned the pictures to depict conditions \u201cbefore\u201d his planned improvements to the market system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">O\u2019Malley\u2019s 1923 Report supplies ample statistical data to illustrate \u201c&#8230;the immensity of the City\u2019s food problem.\u201d For example, \u201cAbout 40,000,000 chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks come into the city markets in a year.\u201d Average daily consumption of other foods included 664,000 pounds of butter, 2,093,425 pounds of white potatoes, 209,562 pounds of sweet potatoes, and 1,302,986 pounds of apples, etc. Additionally, \u201cNew York City consumes more than 3,000,000 quarts of milk every day, drawn from over 40,000 farms&#8230; located in seven neighboring states&#8230; some even from over the Canadian border.\u201d Plus, \u201cNew York City eats more than 1,250,000 loaves of bread daily and about 9,000,000 eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hylan correspondence files include a copy of Commissioner O\u2019Malley\u2019s 1923 Report to the Mayor. 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