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Woman works on piecework, making willow plumes, NYC, February 29, 1912
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A tenement family making artificial flowers, earning 40 cents a day (the equivalent of $9.64 a day today) for their collective work, NYC, 1912
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Death in the slums, New York ca. 1900
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Tenement, Pittsburgh, 1938
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Jacob A Riis, How the Other Half Lives, ca. 1890
Young boys scavenging at the dump, Massachusetts, Oct 1909
Coal miner and wife and children. He has been injured in mines four
times. Since last year, has been refused work, now is on relief.
Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia. September, 1938.
Coal Miner’s wife and children, West Virginia, 1938
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Lower East Side Tailor Shop, Jacob Riis, ca. 1890
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Peddler in a cellar atop a makeshift bed consisting of two barrels and a plank of wood, Jacob A Riis, 1890