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  • Collection: Life at the Jacob Riis Settlement House and in Progressive Era New York

Model of Block on Lower East Side from the Tenement House Exhibition of 1900.png
During the Progressive Era, this particular photograph of the Model of the Block of the Lower East Side was often reused in publications and reports pertaining to tenement housing. The block was bounded by Chrystie, Forsyth, Canal and Bayard streets.…

Street Arabs at Night.png

In A Sweat Shop.png
Riis No. 149 1/2. In a Sweat Shop c. 1890. 12 year old boy at work "pulling threads." Had sworn certificate he was 16 - owned under cross examination to being 12. His teeth corresponded with that age.

Mulberry Bend.png

Sweat Shop in a Ludlow Street Tenement.png

Sewing Pants.png

Under the Dump at West 47th Street.png

Little Susie (Gotham Court).png
This photograph of Little Susie was originally found on pages 109 and 110 in Jacob Riis' "The Children of the Poor".

Ludlow Street- Hebrew Making Ready for Sabbath Eve in His Coal Cellar.png
This photograph of a Jewish man preparing for the Sabbath Eve in his coal cellar with two loaves of bread on the table was originally found on page 27 of Jacob Riis' 1892 book "The Children of the Poor".

Saluting the Flag in Mott Street Industrial School.png
This photograph was included in Riis' 1892 book "The Children of the Poor".
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