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Jacob A Riis, How the Other Half Lives, ca. 1890
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Jacob A Riis, How the Other Half Lives, ca. 1890
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A Man in His Tenement, Jacob Riis, 1890
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Prayer Time, Five Points House of Industry, New York, Jacob Riis, ca. 1889
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Poverty stricken family in New York’s Lower East Side, Jacob Riis, ca. 1888
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Lower East Side Tailor Shop, Jacob Riis, ca. 1890
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Children of the Slums, Jacob Riis, ca. 1890
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In A Sweat Shop “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.” Jacob A Riis, ca. 1890