[Airshaft.]

One Family's Outlook on the Airshaft. The Mother said, "Our Daughter does not care to come Home to Sleep."

[Street Scene.]

[Lower East Side Street Scene.]

Blindman's Alley, 22 Cherry Street.

"The Sun never enters here."

Shoemaker working in a house in the yard of 219 Broome Street, which the landlord built when the sanitary police put him out of the basement. Clatterpole sticks up through his house. Rent $12 a month.

Upstairs in Blindman's Alley.

"The Sun never enters here."

Upstairs in Blindman's Alley.

Upstairs in Blindman's Alley.

Blindman's Alley, 22 Cherry Street.

"The Sun never enters here."

Blindman's Alley, 22 Cherry Street.

Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend, now destroyed.

Nibsy's Alley at 47 1/2 Crosby Street, torn down in the Fall of 1895.

Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend, now destroyed.

Nibsy's Alley at 47 1/2 Crosby Street, torn down in the Fall of 1895.

In a Ludlow Street tenement lodging cellar.

Typical Tenement Fire escape, serving as an extension of the "flat" -- Allen Street.