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- 1. “The Bend” (Mulberry Street in Five Points)
- 2. Old Barney in Cat Alley
- 3. Greek children in Gotham Court
- 4. Chinese man reading notices
- 5. Boys and men in a Jewish neighborhood
- 6. Mountain Eagle, an Iroquois, and his family
- 7. Old Mrs. Benoir, an Indian woman, in her Hudson Street attic
- 8. African American man in a saloon
- 9. Pietro learning to write, Jersey Street
- 10. Jewish Sabbath Eve in a coal cellar, Ludlow Street
- 11. In Poverty Gap, West 28 Street: an English coal-heavers‟ home
- 12. Hester Street, early 1890‟s
- 14. Street cleaning, Fourth Street
- 15. An ash-barrel, about 1888
- 16. Bottle Alley, backyard in Mulberry Bend
- 17. Ice on a burnt-out building
- 18. Hell‟s Kitchen and Sebastopol
- 19. Old house on a Bleecker Street back lot
- 20. A flat in the pauper barracks, West 38 Street, with all its furniture
- 21. The man slept in this cellar for four years, about 1890
- 22. Room in a tenement, 1910
- 23. Entry way to tenement building
- 24. Typical tenement fire-escape serving as an extension of the flat, Allen Street
- 25. Fire escapes as additional living space
- 27. Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement--- “five cents a spot”
- 28. Vegetable stand in the bend
- 31. Newsboys in the Sun office, 3 A.M.
- 32. Childcare in Jersey Street tenement
- 33. Shoemaker, Broome Street, early 1890‟s
- 34. Rag pickers‟ tenement, Bottle Alley
- 35. Bags waiting for rag pickers
- 36. Baxter Street alley, Rag-Pickers‟ Row
- 37. In the home of an Italian rag-picker, Jersey Street
- 38. Blind man selling pencils
- 39. “Knee-pants” at forty-five cents a dozen--- a Ludlow Street sweater‟s shop
- 40. Necktie workshop in a Division Street tenement, 1889
- 41. 12-year-old boy in a sweat-shop
- 42. Family making artificial flowers
- 43. Women doing piece work for a sweat shop owner
- 44. Sewing in an Elizabeth Street attic
- 45. Czech cigar makers at work in their tenement
- 46. Gotham Court girls at home
- 47. The street as playground
- 48. Children in a playground
- 49. Minding the baby--- scene in Gotham Court
- 50. Boys from the Italian quarter next to a “Keep Off the Grass” sign
- 51. Fighting tuberculosis on the roof
- 52. “A home nurse”
- 53. Tenement for the blind
- 54. Girl and baby on stoop
- 55. Elderly sisters, Vandam Street
- 56. Ancient lodger, Eldridge police station, about 1890
- 57. A down-town „morgue‟ or saloon
- 58. Women drinking in a saloon
- 59. Boy sent out to buy beer
- 60. Opium smoker in Chinatown
- 61. The Short Tail Gang, meeting under a pier at the foot of Jackson Street
- 62. A street gang
- 63. “Safe from the cops”
- 64. Members of the gang showing how they mug people
- 65. Homeless man in a yard
- 66. An all-night two-cent restaurant in the Bend
- 67. Bunks in a seven-cent lodging house
- 68. Quarters for the night in police station
- 69. Women lodgers in police station, West 47th Street
- 70. Police station lodgers waiting to be let out
- 71. Living under the dump, Rivington Street
- 72. Under the dump at West 35 Street
- 73. Young gang members being drilled
- 75. News boys in the Sun press room, 2 A.M.
- 76. Abandoned children in sleeping spot
- 77. Homeless boys in night quarters
- 78. Homeless children in sleeping quarters (areaway, Mulberry Street)
- 80. Homeless children outside a church (Mulberry Street)
- 81. Girl from the West 52 Street Industrial School
- 82. Girl of the tenements