riis how the other half lived ch 767
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How the Other Half Lived:
Social Problems Crying Out
For a Social Gospel
Photographs by Jacob Riis, 1890-1910
NEW POPULATIONS
Children on Ellis Island
In Poverty Gap, West 28 Street: an English coal-heavers’ home
Old Barney in Cat Alley
Greek children in Gotham Court
Italian Feast of Saint Roco, Mulberry Street
Talmud School in Hester Street tenement
Jewish Sabbath Eve in a coal cellar, Ludlow Street
Chinese man reading notices
Mountain Eagle, an Iroquois, and his family
African American man in a saloon
THE CITY STREETS
“The Bend” (Mulberry Street in Five Points)
Hester Street, early 1890’s
Boys and men in a Jewish neighborhood
Street vendors
Children in front of store
Horse-drawn merry-go-round
On the slide
Livestock on “the Bend”
Willett Street
Sanitation under Tammany Hall regime
Street cleaning, Fourth Street
An ash-barrel, about 1888
HOUSING
“Shanty town”
Block of tenements
“The Homestead” in “the Bend”
Old house on a Bleecker Street back lot
Hell’s Kitchen and Sebastopol
“Dens of death”
“The sun never enters here”
The Barracks, tenements on Mott Street
“Chinatown”
Panorama of fire-escapes
Typical tenement fire-escape serving as an extension of the flat, Allen Street
Fire escapes as additional living space
Outlawed rear tenements
Archway from illegal first rear tenement leading to stairs to second illegal rear tenement
“Blindman’s Alley”
Playing in the alley
Jersey Street tenements
Baxter Street Court
Bottle Alley, backyard in Mulberry Bend
Tenement-house backyard
Ice on a burnt-out building
“The last mulberry”
INSIDE THE TENEMENTS
Entry way to tenement building
Tenement hallway
Child playing in tenement hallway
Attic living space
“Living quarters”
Interior view of tenement flat
Room in a tenement, 1910
Couple in their home
Old Mrs. Benoir, an Indian woman, in her Hudson Street attic
Upstairs in Blind Man’s Alley
A flat in the pauper barracks, West 38 Street, with all its furniture
Ludlow Street cellar habitation
The man slept in this cellar for four years, about 1890
Pig inside tenement
MAKING A LIVING
Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement--- “five cents a spot”
Vegetable stand in the bend
Elderly street vendor with well-dressed customer
Stale bread vendor
Selling pencils
Shoemaker, Broome Street, early 1890’s
Baxter Street alley, Rag-Pickers’ Row
Bags waiting for rag pickers
In the home of an Italian rag-picker, Jersey Street
Delivering clothes from sweatshop
“Knee-pants” at forty-five cents a dozen--- a Ludlow Street sweater’s shop
Two women and a girl sewing pants
Women doing piece work for the “sweater”
Sewing in an Elizabeth Street attic
Necktie workshop in a Division Street tenement, 1889
12-year-old boy in a sweat-shop
Family making artificial flowers
Women doing needlework in tenement sweatshop
Czech cigar makers at work in their tenement
FAMILIES
Gotham Court girls at home
Italian boy learning to write
Classroom in the condemned Essex Street Public School
Cooling off on the roof of the Barracks
The street as playground
“Their playground a truck”
Minding the baby--- scene in Gotham Court
Boys from the Italian quarter next to a “Keep Off the Grass” sign
Boys ball team
Fighting tuberculosis on the roof
“A home nurse”
“A little mother”
Minding the baby on Cherry Hill
Elderly sisters, Vandam Street
Ancient lodger, Eldridge police station, about 1890
“The white badge of mourning”
Potter’s Field common trench
ADDICTIONS AND VIOLENCE
A down-town ‘morgue’ or saloon
Women drinking in a dive
Boy sent out to buy beer
Opium smoker in Chinatown
Mug shots of “typical toughs”
The Short Tail Gang, meeting under a pier at the foot of Jackson Street
Bandit’s Roost
The “Montgomery Guards”
Young gang members being drilled
“Safe from the cops”
Members of the gang showing how they “did the trick”
Stealing from a street vendor
Blackwell Island Penitentiary
Prisoners breaking stone at Blackwell Island Penitentiary
Blackwell Island Female Almshouse
DESTITUTION
Tramp in a Mulberry Street yard
Ludlow Street cellar lodging house
Women bundled up on floor of boarding house
Bunks in a lodging house
Bunks in “Happy Jack’s Canvas Palace,” seven-cent lodging house
Lodger in “Happy Jack’s Canvas Palace”
An all-night two-cent restaurant in the Bend
Police station lodgers waiting to be let out
Police station lodgers, Madison Street
Quarters for the night in police station
22nd Street Police Station lodgers “where the typhus came”
Women lodgers in police station, West 47th Street
Women in Elizabeth Street police station
Living under the dump, Rivington Street
Under the dump at West 35 Street
Child of the dump
THE LEAST OF THESE
Kids shooting craps
Night messenger
Tommy holding his shoeshine kit
Boys making paper bags
News boys in the Sun press room, 2 A.M.
Newsboys in the Sun office, 3 A.M.
“Didn’t live nowhere”
“Scotty in his lair up at the Hudson River”
Homeless children in sleeping quarters (areaway, Mulberry Street)
Abandoned children in sleeping spot
Homeless boys in night quarters
Homeless children outside a church (Mulberry Street)
Battered girl
Lost Children’s Department at police station
Girl of the tenements
