Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Shanty town.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Shanty town.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Cat Alley, when the rear tenements were torn down in the Elm Street widening (1898?).

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
A Fourth Ward Colony in the Bad Old Days.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
An Old Wooster Street Court.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Flagged Hallway in the "Big Flat."

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Jersey Street Rookeries.

The Division Street Park site -- as it was when tenements were cleared away, taken 1898.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Winter at Richmond Hill in street in front of our house.

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

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
The Same Street when Colonel Waring wielded the Broom.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
A Tammany-swept East Side Street before Col. Waring's Day.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Tammany Street cleaning before Waring's Days in front of 9 Varick Place.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Tammany Street cleaning, corner of 4th Street and Avenue D.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Col. Geo. E. Waring, Jr. He "put a man instead of a voter behind every broom" and cleaned New York.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Theodore Roosevelt when Governor of New York, 1898-1900.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Evening in one of the Courts in Mills House No. 1.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Interior -- reading room in Mills House no. 1.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Mills House No. 1, outside view.

Henry G. (Henry Granger) Piffard (1842-1910),Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
A Seven-cent Lodging House in the Bowery.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
A Mulberry Bend Alley.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Bottle Alley Mulberry Bend in its worst days, picture used as evidence in murder case -- cross on stairs shows where murderer stood and did shooting.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Division Street playground, opening of it.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
The Seward Park on Opening Day.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914)
Bone Alley.