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

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".

This photograph was included in Riis' 1892 book "The Children of the Poor".

This candid picture of young children playing around a garbage can was originally used as an illustration of an article titled "Annexing Mulberry Bend to the U.S.A. by Jessie Tarbox Beals. The caption was "In a Mulberry Bend Court", even though the…

Keetels' illustration of The Bowery Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association gives a full view of the inner workings of the branch. The branch consisted of a New York City Mission, a chapel, a reading and sitting room, dormitories, a library…