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[Jacob A. Riis.]
[Jacob A. Riis.]
Bone Alley Park site -- when the tenements were torn down, one of the small park sites I [Jacob A. Riis] located, taken 1898.
Bone Alley Park site -- when the tenements were torn down, one of the small park sites I [Jacob A. Riis] located, taken 1898.
"I Scrubs." Katie , who keeps house in West Forty-ninth Street.
Blind Beggar.
An Italian Home under a Dump.
A "Scrub" and her Bed -- the Plank.
The Children of the Jacob A. Riis House on my lawn, summer of 1901.
The Children of the Jacob A. Riis House on my lawn, summer of 1901.
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Jacob A. Riis 
Danish-born Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was a journalist,... 
Street Arabs in sleeping quarters.
Street Arabs in sleeping quarters.
Old Barney in Cat Alley.
Old Barney in Cat Alley.
Street Arabs in sleeping quarters.
The Potter's Field, the Common Trench
"Washing Up" in the Newsboys' lodging house.
Shelter Island; Coming through the Fields.
Shelter Island; Coming through the Fields.
"Washing Up" in the Newsboys' lodging house.
Shelter Island; Coming through the Fields.
Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement - "Five cents a spot."
Shelter Island; Our (Indian) Washer woman.
Shelter Island; Coming through the Fields.
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