LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS
AND ILLUSTRATIONS |
PHOTOGRAPHS
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| Shooting Craps |
fr. |
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In poverty Gap, West 28 Street:
an English coal-heaver's home |
135 |
| Bottle Alley, Mulberry Road |
3 |
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Boys from the Italian quarter with a
"Keep off the grass" sign |
139 |
| Room in a tenement, 1910 |
4 |
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Girl of the tenements |
141 |
| Old house on a Bleecker Street back lot,
between Mercer and Greene Streets |
7 |
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Boy's ball team |
142 |
| Hell's Kitchen and Sebastopol |
9 |
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"Drilling the gang" on Mulberry
Street |
144 |
| An ash-barrel, about 1888 |
10 |
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Greek children in gotham Court |
147 |
| Street cleaning, Fourth Street |
12 |
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Prayer-time in the nursery--Five Points
House of Industry |
149 |
| Typical tenement fire-escape
serving as an extention of the flat: Allen Street |
15 |
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In the Sun office, 2 A.M. |
150 |
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Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters [church
corner] |
152 |
| Shoemaker, Broome Street, early 1890s |
16 |
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In the Sun office,
3 A.M. |
155 |
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"Didn't live nowhere" |
157 |
| Mountain Eagle, an Iroquois, and his
family |
18 |
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Street Arabs in sleeping quarters [areaway,
Mulberry St.] |
159 |
| Greek children in Gotham Court |
21 |
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Getting ready for supper in the newsboys'
lodging-house |
161 |
| Stale bread vendor |
23 |
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Craps in the hall of the newsboys's lodging-house |
162 |
| Old Barney in Cat Alley |
24 |
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A down-town "morgue" |
164 |
| Jersey Street tenements |
26 |
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In a dive |
167 |
| Upstairs in Blind Man's Alley |
29 |
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Quarters for the night |
168 |
| Alley scene |
31 |
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Typical toughs (from the Rogues' Gallery)
[burglar & thief] |
170 |
| Tenement-house yard |
33 |
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"Rushing the growler [beer-can]" |
173 |
| Gotham Court |
35 |
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The Short Tail Gang, about 1889, under
pier at foot of Jackson St., later Corlears Hook Park |
175 |
| An old rear tenement in Roosevelt Street |
37 |
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Members of the gang showing how they
"did the trick" |
177 |
| Baxter Street alley, Rag-Picker's Row |
39 |
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A growler gang in session [the "Montgomery
Guards" at the West 37 Street dock] |
179 |
| Hallway of "The Ship," early
1890s |
40 |
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Hunting river thieves |
181 |
| Feast of Saint Rocco, Bandits' Roost,
Mulberry Street |
42 |
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Women in Gotham Court sewing "pants"
for the sweater |
185 |
| In the home of an Italian
rag-picker, Jersey Street |
45 |
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Sewing and starving in an
Elizabeth Street attic |
187 |
| Pietro learning to write: Jersey Street |
46 |
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Sisters, Vandam Street |
188 |
| "The Bend" |
48 |
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Old Mrs. Benoir, an Indian woman, in
her Hudson St. attic |
190 |
| Bandits Roost |
51 |
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A flat in the pauper barracks, West 38
St., with all its furniture |
193 |
| Mulberry "Bend," southwest
corner of the block |
53 |
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Blind beggar, 1888 |
195 |
| Bottle Alley |
55 |
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"A home nurse" |
197 |
| "The Homestead"
in "the Bend" |
57 |
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Under the dump, Rivington
Street, about 1890 |
198 |
| Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement |
58 |
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Ancient lodger, Eldridge Street police
station, about 1890 |
200 |
| An all-night two-cent restaurant in "the
Bend" |
60 |
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Under the dump at West 35 Street |
204 |
| Police station lodgers waiting to be
let out |
63 |
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Girl from the West 52 Street Industrial
school |
206 |
| The Tramp [in a Mulberry Street yard] |
65 |
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Street Arabs in night quarters |
208 |
| Police station lodgers, Madison Street |
66 |
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The Barracks, Mott Street between Bleecker
and Houston Street |
210 |
| In a seven-cent lodging-house |
68 |
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Newsboy in the Duane Street
lodging-house |
213 |
| Bunks in a sevent-cent lodging-house,
Pell Street |
71 |
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"Safe from the cops" |
215 |
| Police station lodgers, West 47 Street,
early 1890s |
73 |
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Gotham Court girls, 1889 |
217 |
| Women in Elizabeth Street police station |
74 |
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Street Arabs in sleeping quarters at
night |
219 |
| In a Chinese joint |
76 |
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Vegetable stand in "the Bend" |
220 |
| "The official organ of Chinatown" |
79 |
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On the roof of the Barracks |
222 |
| Panorama of fire-escapes |
81 |
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| Hester Street, early
1890s |
84 |
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ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
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| Jewish neighborhood |
87 |
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Tenement of 1863, for twelve families
on each flat |
8 |
| The street their playground |
89 |
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Tenement of the old style: birth of the
air-shaft |
14 |
| Ice on burnt-out building |
93 |
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At the cradle of the tenement: doorway
of an old-fashioned dwelling on Cherry Hill |
28 |
| "Knee-pants" at forty-five
cents a dozen--a Ludlow Street sweater's shop |
96 |
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Woman at well |
47 |
| Twelve-year-old boy (who had sworn he
was sixteen) pulling threads in a sweat shop, about
1889 |
99 |
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Opium pipe |
83 |
| Necktie workshop in a Division Street
tenement, 1889 |
101 |
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A tramp's nest in Ludlow Street |
86 |
| Children in a playground |
103 |
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A market scene in the Jewish quarter |
92 |
| Sabbath Eve in a coal cellar, Ludlow
Street, early 1890s |
105 |
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The old clo'e's man--in the Jewish quarters |
94 |
| Bohemian cigarmakers at work in their
tenement |
108 |
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The open door |
122 |
| A black-and-tan dive in "Africa"
[Broome Street, c.1890] |
114 |
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Bird's-eye view of an East Side tenement
block |
122 |
| Girl and a baby on a doorstep |
120 |
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The white badge of mourning |
126 |
| Family making artificial flowers |
123 |
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Dispossessed |
133 |
| Minding the baby-scene in Gotham Court |
125 |
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The trench in the Potter's Field |
136 |
| Fighting tuberculosis on the roof |
127 |
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Coffee at one cent |
196 |
| Bottle Alley, Mulberry Bend |
128 |
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Evolution of the tenement in twenty years |
211 |
| The man slept in this cellar for four
years, about 1890 |
130 |
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General plan of the Riverside Buildings
(A.T. White's) in Brooklyn |
227 |
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Map |
230 |
