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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.
