In the home of an Italtian Ragpicker, Jersey Street.

In the home of an Italtian Ragpicker, Jersey Street.

In the home of an Italtian Ragpicker, Jersey Street.

Yard in Jersey Street Tenement.

An Italian Home under a Dump.

It costs a Dallar a Month to sleep in the Sheds.

It costs a Dallar a Month to sleep in the Sheds.

Baby in slum tenement, dark stairs--it's playground.

Baby in slum tenement, dark stairs--it's playground.

Street Arabs in sleeping quarters.

Street Arabs in sleeping quarters.

Street Arabs in sleeping quarters.

Old house in Cherry Street, "The Cradle of the Tenement".

It costs a Dallar a Month to sleep in the Sheds.

Old house in Cherry Street, "The Cradle of the Tenement".

Bone Alley Park site -- when the tenements were torn down, one of the small park sites I [Jacob A. Riis] located, taken 1898.

Pietro learning to make an Englis' letter.

Bone Alley Park site -- when the tenements were torn down, one of the small park sites I [Jacob A. Riis] located, taken 1898.

Shelter Island; Our (Indian) Washer woman and her baby.

Pietro learning to make an Englis' letter.