In the home of an Italtian Ragpicker, Jersey Street.

In the home of an Italtian Ragpicker, Jersey Street.

In the home of an Italian Ragpicker, Jersey Street.

In the home of an Italtian Ragpicker, Jersey Street.

Baby in slum tenement, dark stairs--it's playground.

Yard in Jersey Street Tenement.

Baby in slum tenement, dark stairs--it's playground.

Bohemian cigar makers at work in their tenement.

Old house in Cherry Street, "The Cradle of the Tenement".

Bohemian cigar makers at work in their tenement.

Bohemian cigar makers at work in their tenement.

Bohemian cigar makers at work in their tenement.

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

Bohemian cigar makers at work in their tenement.

Old house in Cherry Street, "The Cradle of the Tenement".

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

Bone Alley Park site -- when the tenements were torn down, one of the small park sites I [Jacob A. Riis] located, taken 1898.

Bohemian cigar makers at work in their tenement.

Bohemian cigar makers at work in their tenement.

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