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Milliner doing some take-home work, NYC, November 1912
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Entrance to tenement house, NYC, February 1912
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A tenement family works making tags. They make about $10 a month ($241.60 with inflation). NYC, November 1912
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Doing home-work, mending a pair of pants, NYC, February 1912
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A tenement family works on powder puffs for 45 cents ($6.39 with inflation) per gross (a gross is 144). They attempt to do 9 gross a week ($57.53 today), NYC, December 1922
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Doing crochet work on underwear on dirty underwear, NYC, August 1912
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A mother and her daughters darning clothing, NYC, 1912
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John Sachatello, a barber, helps his family make flowers for $2 ($48.21 today with inflation) a gross (a gross is 144 items), NYC, 4pm, February, 1912
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Children help their mother with her piecework. She makes $2 - $2.50 a week ($48.21 - $60.27 a week today) while “father loafs”, NYC, 1912
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A family making flowers for 6 cents ($1.45 today) a gross (a gross is 144). They make about 11 gross a day ($15.91 daily in today’s dollars) NYC, February 1912.
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Tenement houses, Elizabeth Street, NYC, March 1912
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Rear view of a tenement building, NYC, November 1912
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Mother and small children work, while father, who occasionally gets part time work with the railroad, lazes. New York, December, 1911.
Tenement building, advertised as ‘Eleganti Apartmenti’, NYC, 1912
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Lobby of a tenement building, NYC, February 12, 1912