How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New YorkRiis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
Poor -- New York (State) -- New York; Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York
BUNKS IN A SEVEN-CENT LODGING-HOUSE, PELL STREET, 87
IN A CHINESE JOINT, 98
"THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CHINATOWN," 100
A TRAMP'S NEST IN LUDLOW STREET, 106
A MARKET SCENE IN THE JEWISH QUARTER, 111
THE OLD CLO'E'S MAN--IN THE JEWISH QUARTERS, 117
"KNEE-PANTS" AT FORTY-FIVE CENTS A DOZEN--A
LUDLOW STREET SWEATER'S SHOP, 127
BOHEMIAN CIGARMAKERS AT WORK IN THEIR TENEMENT, 143
A BLACK-AND-TAN DIVE IN "AFRICA," 157
THE OPEN DOOR, 160
BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF AN EAST SIDE TENEMENT BLOCK, 163
THE WHITE BADGE OF MOURNING, 166
IN POVERTY GAP, WEST TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET.
AN ENGLISH COAL-HEAVER'S HOME, 169
DISPOSSESSED, 176
THE TRENCH IN THE POTTER'S FIELD, 178
PRAYER-TIME IN THE NURSERY--FIVE POINTS HOUSE
OF INDUSTRY, 195
"DIDN'T LIVE NOWHERE," 200
STREET ARABS IN SLEEPING QUARTERS, 202
GETTING READY FOR SUPPER IN THE NEWSBOYS'
LODGING-HOUSE, 205
A DOWNTOWN "MORGUE," 214
A GROWLER GANG IN SESSION, 223
TYPICAL TOUGHS (FROM THE ROGUES' GALLERY), 228
HUNTING RIVER THIEVES, 231
SEWING AND STARVING IN AN ELIZABETH STREET ATTIC, 238
A FLAT IN THE PAUPER BARRACKS, WEST THIRTY-EIGHTH
STREET, WITH ALL ITS FURNITURE, 245
COFFEE AT ONE CENT, 252
EVOLUTION OF THE TENEMENT IN TWENTY YEARS, 269
GENERAL PLAN OF THE RIVERSIDE BUILDINGS
(A. T. WHITE'S) IN BROOKLYN, 292
FLOOR PLAN OF ONE DIVISION IN THE RIVERSIDE
BUILDINGS, SHOWING SIX "APARTMENTS," 293
"With gates of silver and bars of gold
Ye have fenced my sheep from their father's fold;
I have heard the dropping of their tears
In heaven these eighteen hundred years."
"O Lord and Master, not ours the guilt,
We build but as our fathers built;
Behold thine images, how they stand,
Sovereign and sole, through all our land."
Then Christ sought out an artisan,
A low-browed, stunted, haggard man,
And a motherless girl, whose fingers thin
Pushed from her faintly want and sin.
These set he in the midst of them,
And as they drew back their garment-hem,
For fear of defilement, "Lo, here," said he,
"The _images_ ye have made of me!"
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