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.

Shoemakers in their Ludlow Street Cellar, Dec. 1895.

[Wall of pictures of Indians.]

Shoemakers in their Ludlow Street Cellar, Dec. 1895.

Ludlow Street cellar habitation, Dec. 1895.

Ludlow Street cellar habitation, Dec. 1895.

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

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

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.

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