City Life in the Gilded Age

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City Life in the Gilded Age Photographs by Jacob Riis http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Davis/photography/slideshows/slideshows.html

Mulberry Bend, New York

Dens of Death

A Flat in the Pauper's Barracks with All Its Furniture

It Costs a Dollar a Month to Sleep in These Sheds

Scene on the Roof of the Mott Street Barracks

In Poverty Gap, an English Coal-Heaver's Home

Ready for Sabbath Eve in a Coal Cellar

Peddler Who Slept in the Cellar of 11 Ludlow Street Rear

In Sleeping Quarters, Rivington Street Dump

Men's Lodging Room in the West 47th Street Station

Eldridge Street Police Station Lodgers

A Seven-Cent Lodging House, Pell Street

Night School in the Seventh Avenue Lodging House

Pictures by Lewis Hine

Italian Family on Ferry Boat, Leaving Ellis Island, New York

Climbing into America, Ellis Island, New York

Tenement Rookeries, Washington, DC

Poor Home, New York City Tenement

Family in Tenement, New York

Playground in Mill Village

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