Stirring the Melting Pot: Photographs from The New York Historical Collections

Now on view at the DiMenna Children’s History Museum, *Stirring the Melting Pot: Photographs from The New-York Historical Collections* draws on the institution’s archive to trace how immigrant communities have shaped New York City. The photographs move between street life, work, family, and civic gatherings, offering a record of who was allowed to belong and who had to insist on being seen. For kids, it makes the city’s big idea of “the melting pot” concrete and sometimes unsettled. The show’s quiet strength is its refusal to simplify assimilation into a single story.