Mountain Eagle and his Family of Iroquois Indians -- One of the few Indian families in the city, found at no. 6 Beach Street, Dec. 1895.

Mountain Eagle and his Family of Iroquois Indians -- One of the few Indian families in the city, found at no. 6 Beach Street, Dec. 1895.

Mountain Eagle and his Family of Iroquois Indians -- One of the few Indian families in the city, found at no. 6 Beach Street, Dec. 1895.

Mountain Eagle and his Family of Iroquois Indians -- One of the few Indian families in the city, found at no. 6 Beach Street, Dec. 1895.

Indians (Iroquois) at 511 Broome Street.

Indians (Iroquois) at 511 Broome Street.

Indians (Iroquois) at 511 Broome Street.

Old Mrs. Benoit in her Hudson Street attic, an Indian widow who lived there four years.

Old Mrs. Benoit in her Hudson Street attic, an Indian widow who lived there four years.

Old Mrs. Benoit in her Hudson Street attic, an Indian widow who lived there four years.

[Wall of pictures of Indians.]

Shoemakers in their Ludlow Street Cellar, Dec. 1895.

In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-Eighth St. An English Coal-Heaver's Home.

Ludlow Street cellar habitation, Dec. 1895.

Shoemakers in their Ludlow Street Cellar, Dec. 1895.

Ludlow Street cellar habitation, Dec. 1895.

[Family in room in tenement house.]

Sewing Pants for the Sweater - in Gotham Court.

Sewing and starving in an Elizabeth Street attic.

The Old Gribbon sisters at 5 Van Dam Street photographed Dec. 1895 after I [Jacob A. Riis] had got them pensioned by Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane.