Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. How the Other Half Lives. 1890.
Illustrations
- Frontispiece
- Hell’s Kttchen and Sebastopol
- Tenement of 1863, for Twelve Families on Each Flat
- Tenement of the Old Style. Birth of the Air-Shaft
- At the Cradle of the Tenement.—Doorway of an Old-Fashioned Dwelling on Cherry Hill
- Upstairs in Blindman’s Alley
- An Old Rear-Tenement in Roosevelt Street
- In the Home of an Italian Rag-Picker, Jersey Street
- The Bend
- Bandits’ Roost
- Bottle Alley
- Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement— “Five Cents a Spot”
- An All-Night Two-Cent Restaurant, in “the Bend”
- The Tramp
- Bunks in a Seven-Cent Lodging-House, Pell Street
- In a Chinese Joint
- “The Official Organ of Chinatown”
- A Tramp’s Nest in Ludlow Street
- A Market Scene in the Jewish Quarter
- The Old Clo’e’s Man—in the Jewish Quarters
- “Knee-Pants” at Forty-Five Cents a Dozen—A Ludlow Street Sweater’s Shop
- Bohemian Cigarmakers at Work in their Tenement
- A Black-And-Tan Dive in “Africa”
- The Open Door
- Bird’s-eye View of an East Side Tenement Block
- The White Badge of Mourning
- In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-Eighth Street. An English Coal-Heaver’s Home
- Dispossedssed
- The Trench in the Potter’s Field
- Prayer-Time in the Nursery—Five Points House of Industry
- “Didn’t Live Nowhere”
- Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters
- Getting Ready for Supper in the Newsboys’ Lodging-House
- A Downtown “Morgue”
- A Growler Gang in Session
- Typical Toughs (From The Rogues’ Gallery)
- Hunting River Thieves
- Sewing and Starving in an Elizabeth Street Attic
- A Flat in the Pauper Barracks, West Thirty-Eighth Street, with all its Furniture
- Coffee at One Cent
- Evolution of the Tenement in Twenty Years
- General Plan of the Riverside Buildings (A. T. White’s ) in Brooklyn
- Floor Plan of One Division in the Riverside Buildings, Showing Six “Apartments”