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)[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)Necktie workshop in a Division Street tenement.
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)Court at No. 24 Baxter Street.
Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)Paper bags.
Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)The 'Soup House Gang' Class in History in the Duane Street Newsboys' Lodging House.
The Potter's Field Consecrated Ground.
Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)Waiting at table, vacation school.
Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)Main Entrance of Public School 153 Bronx.
Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)The Church Street Station Lodging-room, in which I [Jacob A. Riis] was robbed.
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