"How the Other Half Lives"

Pictures from Riis' book "How the Other Half Lives. Studies Among the Tenements of New York"

“Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters", 1890

“Prayer Time in the Nursery, Five Points House of Industry," 1888

“‘I Scrubs,’ Little Katie From the West 52nd Street Industrial School"

“Knee-pants at Forty-Five Cents a Dozen -- a Ludlow Street Sweater's Shop," 1890

"Five Cents a Spot," 1889

“Italian Mother and Her Baby," 1889

“Slept in the Cellar Four Years," 1890-92

Bandit's Roost, 1888

Link to a digital version of Jacob Riis' book on google books