"Slept in that cellar four years."

"Slept in that cellar four years."

"Slept in that cellar four years."

Ice-coated house (burned) in Crosby Street opposite Jersey Street, January 1896.

A "Scrub" and her Bed -- the Plank.

A "Scrub" and her Bed -- the Plank.

Ice-coated house (burned) in Crosby Street opposite Jersey Street, January 1896.

Rivington Street Dump, woman working there.

Tammany Street cleaning before Waring's Days in front of 9 Varick Place.

Hester Street. The Street, the school children's only playground.

Tammany Street cleaning before Waring's Days in front of 9 Varick Place.

Rivington Street Dump, woman working there.

Public School, Suffolk & Rivington Streets.

Gouverneur Street Public School.

Gouverneur Street Public School.

Gouverneur Street Public School.

A "Scrub" and her Bed -- the Plank.

Hester Street. The children's playground. All they have.

Public School, Suffolk & Rivington Streets.

"Slept in that cellar four years."