Museum of the City of New York

Alexander Alland
Night in Gotham Court.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Necktie workshop in a Division Street tenement.

The First Patriotic Election in The Beach Street Industrial School - parlor in John Ericsson's old house.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
The First Patriotic Election in The Beach Street Industrial School - parlor in John Ericsson's old house.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Night school in the west side lodging house. Edward, the little pedlar, caught napping.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
The Church Street Station Lodging-room, in which I [Jacob A. Riis] was robbed.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Police Station Lodgers 13. Elizabeth Street Station--Women Lodgers.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
East Side Public Schools 1. A class in the condemned Essex Market School, Gas burning by day.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
What the Boys Learn on Their Street Playground.

Arch under the first rear tenement at 55 Baxter Street leading to the second rear, with stairs up which Vincenzo Nino went to murder his wife in 1895. House believed to be haunted.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Arch under the first rear tenement at 55 Baxter Street leading to the second rear, with stairs up which Vincenzo Nino went to murder his wife in 1895. House believed to be haunted.

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.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
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.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Old Mrs. Benoit in her Hudson Street attic, an Indian widow who lived there four years.

Alexander Alland
Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement - "Five cents a spot."

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend, now destroyed.

Alexander Alland
In the home of an Italtian Ragpicker, Jersey Street.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
The Bend.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Sewing Pants for the Sweater - in Gotham Court.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Saluting the Flag in the Mott Street Industrial School.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
"Slept in that cellar four years."

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
An Italian Home under a Dump.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Police Station Lodgers - Women's lodging room in West 47th Street Station.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
The Old.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Hester Street. The Street, the school children's only playground.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Nibsy's Alley at 47 1/2 Crosby Street, torn down in the Fall of 1895.

Alexander Alland,Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
"Ready for Sabbath Eve in a Coal Cellar" - a cobbler in Ludlow Street.

Alexander Alland
[Looking south from the Battery to Governors Island.]

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