Jersey Street

Jersey Street

women, children, tenement houses, leisure

This drawing by W.H. Drake was originally used in the Forty-First Annual Report of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, for the year 1884 as a illustration of slums located in Jersey Street. Years later, in 1902, Riis reused this illustration for his book The Battle with the Slums under the caption "Jersey Street Rookeries". Among the issues with the Jersey Street slum were rickety stairs, roofs lacking aperture for ventilation, and broken boards and glass.

William Henry (W.H.) Drake

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services

1884

Item Number: 966
Photograph Number: MA-262
Box and Folder Number: 620: 50

Drawing

850 x 695