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Bandits' Roost - a Mulberry Bend Alley.
The Bend.
The Short Tail Gang (Corlears Hook) Pier at foot of Jackson Street, now Corlears Hook Park. Photographed from the Police Boat.
The Board of Election Inspectors in the Beach Street School.
A "Scrub" and her Bed -- the Plank.
I Scrubs. Katie, who keeps house in West Forty-ninth Street.
Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement - "Five cents a spot."
In the home of an Italian Ragpicker, Jersey Street.
A Downtown "Morgue."
An Italian Home under a Dump.
"Slept in that cellar four years."
Ready for Sabbath Eve in a Coal Cellar - a cobbler in Ludlow Street.
Blind Beggar.
The Tramp.
Street Arabs in sleeping quarters.
Prayer time in the nursery, Five Points House of Industry.
In a Sweat Shop.
Talmud School in a Hester Street Tenement.
The Church Street Station Lodging-room, in which I [Jacob A. Riis] was robbed.
An All-Night Two-Cent Restaurant, in "The Bend".
It costs a Dallar a Month to sleep in the Sheds.
Poverty Gappers playing Coney Island.
Their playground a truck -- Baxter Street.
"Minding the Baby," Cherry Hill.
Hester Street. The Street, the school children's only playground.
Indians (Iroquois) at 511 Broome Street.
Poverty Gap Transformed -- the spot where Young Healey was murdered is now a playground.
New York, Old house (torn down) in Bleeker Street, on a back lot between Mercer and Greene Streets.
Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend, now destroyed.
Pietro learning to write.
The Potter's Field, the Common Trench.
The Ashbarrel of old.
Mullen's Alley, Cherry Hill.
"Little Susie at Her Work," Gotham Court.
The "Slide" that was the Children's only Playground once.
A Growler Gang in Session.
Getting Ready for Supper in the Newsboys' Lodging House.
Saluting the Flag in the Mott Street Industrial School.
Night school in the west side lodging house. Edward, the little pedlar, caught napping.
Under the Dump at West 47th Street.
Women's Lodging Room in Eldridge Street Police Station.
"Playground" of the Essex Market Public Shcool, Row of Closets [Toilets] Opening on It.
Lodging Room in the Leonard Street Police Station.
Old Barney in Cat Alley.
Cat Alley, when it was being torn down.
Baby in slum tenement, dark stairs--it's playground.
Showing their trick, Hell's Kitchen boys.
