A sample of the photographs of Jacob Riis from his work "How the Other Half Lives" in 1890.

1. How the Other Half Lives
A Sample of the Photographs
Of
Jacob Riis

2. Tenement Housing in New York City

3. An Extension of the Tenement

4. The Yard
of Some
Tenement
Houses in
New York
City

5. Seven Cent
Bunks for
Rent in
NYC

6. This man lived in this cellar for four years!

7. Suffering from tuberculosis on the roof.

8. House of an Italian Rag Picker

9. Sweat Shop Laborers

10. Women Lodgers at a Police Station

11. Gotham Court: A Place of Socialization

12. Little Pietro Learns to Write

13. Lodging at the Police Station

14. Shooting Craps

15. A NYC
Street
Gang

16. Young Boys
Demonstrate
Turning a
Trick

17. Where the Little Boys Sleep