Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Court at No. 24 Baxter Street.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Paper bags.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
[Lower East Side Street Scene.]

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Athletic meets in Crotona Park.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Public School 167 in the Bronx, Main Entrance.

Prayer time in the nursery, Five Points House of Industry.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
North Brother Island--"The coffin corner".

Men's lodging room in West 47th Street Station.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Two Greek children in Gotham Court debating if Santa Claus will get to their alley or not. He did.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
[Mulberry Street.]

Henry G. (Henry Granger) Piffard (1842-1910),Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
[Well-dressed man being thrown into jail.]

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
The Mott Street Boys, "Keep off the Grass".

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Shine, sir?

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
The Short Tail Gang (Corlears Hook) Pier at foot of Jackson Street, now Corlears Hook Park. Photographed from the Police Boat.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
A Downtown "Morgue."

The Survival of the Unfittest.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
"Slept in that cellar four years."

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Necktie workshop in a Division Street tenement.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
A "Scrub" and her Bed -- the Plank.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Talmud School in a Hester Street Tenement.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
[Children tending to the garden.]

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Blind Beggar.

Street Arabs in sleeping quarters.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
I Scrubs. Katie, who keeps house in West Forty-ninth Street.

Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement - "Five cents a spot."