"Scotty" in his lair, a pile of abandoned lumber and wrecks up at the Harlem River.

"A Snug Corner on a Cold Night."

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.

In a Ludlow Street tenement lodging cellar.

Street Arabs -- night, Boys in sleeping quarter.

"A Snug Corner on a Cold Night."

In a Ludlow Street tenement lodging cellar.

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.

A Child of the Dump.

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.

A Tramp's nest in Ludlow Street.

A Child of the Dump.

A Tramp's nest in Ludlow Street.

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.

Street Arabs -- night boys in sleeping quarters.

Street Arabs -- night boys in sleeping quarters.

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.

A Tramp's nest in Ludlow Street.

In a Ludlow Street tenement lodging cellar.